Chris Anderson recently posted on the subject of RSS feeds and strategies to differentiate information. In the post he drew some interesting conclusions about his own patterns of consuming and filtering information.

What all these blogs that have earned their way to my feed list are doing is adding value to commodity information. The ones I’m reading do this in at least one of three main ways:

1. Add value with a unique perspective or analysis.

2. Add value with unique information.

3. Add value by providing a unique filter/lens on content available elsewhere.

Like Chris, I rarely visit mainstream news media sites, and I get most of my news from blogs. I’m no media scholar, nor a journalist, and Chris’ ideas make sense to me.

Some factors that aren’t in Chris’ list above:

1. Having an editor.

2. Getting paid to write.

3. Restricting your content to an “objective” point of view (whatever that means).