In Celebrating seven years of blogging Robert Scoble, who I saw several times this week in Paris at LeWeb3 (and nearly bumped into at the Louvre) talks about how long he's been blogging:

"…..Truth is that this form of communication is still in its infancy. Imagine talking about newspapers just 10 years after they were developed and thinking “this is it, no more to do.” Yeah, right.

2008 is going to bring us live streaming video from our cell phones. What’s beyond that? Who knows, but I’m along for the ride!"

"..December 15, 2000. That’s when I started blogging. In seven years a lot has happened. The first two years of my blog have disappeared. They might be on a hard drive somewhere, I’m still trying to track them down. Dave Winer first linked to me on December 29th (sent me about 3,000 people, if I remember my stats right).

The term “weblog” is 10 years old on Monday. So lots of blogging birthdays. Jorn Barger, the guy who came up with the name, has some tips for new bloggers to celebrate. It’s good advice and advice I try to listen to. It’s amazing that I was three years behind Jorn but that when I started there was still only a very small community of bloggers (less than 200 that I could find — I did some research since Dori Smith asked me to do a session on blogging at the Internet conference I was helping Dan Shafer plan)."

If Robert Scoble is 7 "blog" years old, I'll be 2 "blog" years old on February 9th, 2008 (which will be the 2 year anniversary of Webmetricsguru.com).   I suppose I have also blogged a little bit before that on my personal blogger blog - www.now-seo.com, which has been redirected to www.my-metrics.com recently, by me.

Scoble goes on to say the last 7 years have seen many changes - with the last one, 15 on the list, being ominous … but there's a question mark there too:

"…In the past seven years I’ve survived:

1. The bubble bursting.
2. A car wreck.
3. A terrorist attack.
4. A divorce.
5. My grandma dying.
6. My mom dying.
7. A new marriage.
8. Five moves.
9. Five jobs (soon to be six).
10. Three URLS (1 http://scobleizer.manilasites.com 2. http://scoble.weblogs.com 3. http://scobleizer.com ).
11. I don’t know how many social networks I’ve been on (Twitter, Upcoming, Seesmic, Kyte, Flickr, Orkut, MySpace, Google Reader, Facebook, Yelp, Pownce, Jaiku are some of the ones I’m on currently).
12. Successfully getting Patrick into teenage years.
13. Birth of a new son, Milan.
14. Writing a book about corporate blogging with Shel Israel, “Naked Conversations.”
15. A new bubble?"

Well, I did see Robert Scoble next to an attractive woman in the reception area of LeWeb3, so maybe that's the wife - not sure, but know nothing of the car wreck since I haven't regularly read his blog till over the last year or so - and then, not all the time.

But like Scoble, I share the same idea of needing to read my RSS Feeds constantly, and while I don't subscribe to 800 feeds, as he does, I have a pretty good selection of around 200-300 feeds I read every day - often on my handheld or iPod Nano - where I find it's easier to digest information in small bits, on a smaller screen.   I then put stars next to the feed items I want to write about - and the next time I get an opportunity, I post on them if I still want to.

I find it still too hard to actually post to any blog using my Tmobile Sidekick 3 (doesn't actually work) or iPod Touch - too cumbersome to type the post out.  But those devices are fairly ideal for reading and digesting information while in movement, on a bus, at a conference, on the John, whatever, it's easier to read feeds on a small device, and take in the information, than on a laptop…but that's just me.