247 Tech Journalists and Bloggers who actually use Google+

Originally shared by Robert Scoble

247 Tech Journalists and Bloggers who actually use Google+

Slowly I’m cleaning out my circles of folks who aren’t using Google+. Why? Because I want to make room for new people who are actually using it.

I learned something interesting today while cleaning out my Tech Journalist and Blogger circle: the churn rate here is fairly high, about 30%.

What’s churn? It’s the rate of people who come, try this out, then leave never to come back. I removed all those people.

For the next few days I’ll share just my tech circle with you all, so you can follow them yourselves (just visit https://profiles.google.com/scobleizer and click on the “View All” under “In Robert’s Circles.”). I’m following more than that, but one thing Google+ does well is let me share just certain circles with you.

Some other things I’ve learned?

1. It’s way too hard to look at everyone in a list and see if they are actually active.

2. People who don’t post something publicly bug me. Worse are the folks who only have one entry: when they change their photo.

3. Google recommends the lamest people to you to follow. Why is that? Because the first users on the network followed people we knew from other networks. That got them added to the recommendation system but the recommendation system didn’t actually keep track of whether or not they were actively using the system.

4. This circle tends to be more professional than the average user (the content posted here tends to be more interesting and better written, etc).

Anyway, hope all this damn work of reading and finding and curating is worth it for you.

If I’m missing someone who is active and good, let me know!