If you happen to subscribe to my blog and saw a rather odd entry show up in my RSS feed, my sincere apologies. Earlier today, I was demo-ing the power of Textmate blogging to Garret and Chris. To show off all the features, I put together a jibberish entry and posted to to my Blog.

The post was literally up for 20 seconds (stop and count 20 seconds). As I loaded up my Wordpress blog, and logged in to delete the entry, Garret said “Wouldn’t it be funny if Pulse picked up on that entry and aggregated it already?”

We laughed.

Just a few minutes ago, Garret sent over a screenshot of Google Reader, showing the jibberish entry that I had up for those very 20 seconds. Damn Google, you’re good, maybe a little too good…

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget exactly how much more connected the Internet is today. Probably five years ago, you could post some random ramblings to your dinky little blog and no one would ever notice. But today, with the power of crawlers, feeds, and all this openness, 20 seconds is all it takes for the information you create to spread everywhere.