Going into bloglines is just another variation on visiting your MySpace page, from this perspective – the same principle applies, on an even larger scale. The more nodes in your social network (e.g. the number of feeds you subscribe to) the greater number of opportunities to be rewarded or passed over each time you take a look. It’s like building a roullete table with a wheel and table that can expand to accomodate n-1 possibile outcomes.

The more I think about it, I’d say aggregators are the next great opportunity for those who want to take advantage of intermittent reward phenomena – they explicitly reject the notion of a closed system, and thus allow anybody to play, so long as they publish a feed. The larger the number of contributory streams of ego-stroking, identity-sniffing, content provision or what have you, the greater the opportunity to experience serendipity or walk away shaking your head, wondering if the whole Internet is on a bank holiday.

how is the “push” model different than the “pull” model different in this equation.

your blog is in my bloglines. i wait for an update. then i click. but until u update, i don’t visit your blog.

why? because (1) i am ever-so-slightly more aware of rss than the average bear, and (2) click fatigue. i got ~tired~ of pulling the lever. yet, i’ll bet most people keep pulling it.

how might this play out in the future?

first off, i regret telling you you’re hot shit so often.

re:survey of logins, i just add my friends’ social net-expressions to my bloglines, so i don’t know how that relates.