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Today Rand posted about his experience in reorganizing his Firefox bookmarks…

well, while I don’t believe that’s worth a post or even worth a digg it’s worth reading in some detail to find some cool new sites or tools … and a couple of SeoMoz-Members found the post pretty cool… so it’s worth it I guess.

But hey, I just found some links to his favorite (top) blogs, not the really cool secret SEO tools or articles he uses for daily work… drawing his line at the “competitive advantage” not listing public tools he uses… hmmm – too bad …

but wait – some bookmarklets where there, actually pretty similar to those few bookmarklets that Michael posted a few hours earlier

This small list of bookmarklets makes me think that either

a) those guys don’t want to give away the REAL cool secret bookmarklets (hey – indexing checked only on Google? NO check for supplemental counts across data centers, no comparision of cached pages per data center…) ...

or b) both Michael and Rand are really looking at SEO and search engines (especially Google) in a very different way…

And hey, no single bookmarklet for Jim’s great Top10 tool? do you guys lookup whois dates for ranking sites up by hand?

and then it hit me like a hammer:

Links to Blogs…

Yep – Rand confirmed he didn’t get into RSS so far … which is pretty straightforward yet coolish statement … (did I hear foolish?)

It’s interesting to read that even top-techie guys and industry leaders like Rand did not yet adopt RSS ... I would have never expected THAT. you learn a bit every day.

Among some other funny responses I found this

EGOL wrote:

lol… even old farts like me use RSS

Nothing further to add :-)

Comments

I think that is a human

I think that is a human problem, you will never adopt something new as fast as you need time to loose the old stuff. People born around 1900 were scared of driving in a car, we probably will be scared of the next beam-me-up technology.

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I agree, but...

... my major point was that I would have put Rand into the "early adopter" class of people who start and play around with all new tech stuff coming out... I mean I felt I'm late on the boat when I installed my first RSS reader in summer 2003 - well, I was not - but then...