This is the one about feeds.
Posted May 30th, 2010 by Mike Lawson
In the past couple of months I’ve found that I’m spending fewer idle hours on the internet. Which is good, I guess. But my Google Reader is full, and it’s making me a little anxious.
First, if there are any non-nerds reading, I should define Google Reader as a web-based aggregator, which is capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds on or offline. Umm…still confused? How about this: it’s one website where you can read all of your favorite websites when they are updated.
Good.
So I subscribe to 124 feeds. And I’ve got everything categorized into fifteen folders:
* Blogs (written by people I know…virtually or otherwise)
* Local (local food and news)
* Productivity (ironically one of the biggest time-sucks)
* Design & Coding (web stuff)
* Android (phone stuff)
* Orange County Politics
* Diabetes Blogs
* Design (like interior design)
* Technology
* Entertainment
* LGBT
* Blogging
* Links to me (I created a feed that shares links when someone links to this website)
* Work (things related to my profession)
I easily get over 1,000 articles a day in my reader. And when I was reading things every day, that wasn’t a huge deal. Granted I used to breeze past a lot of stuff…or just mark entire folders as read if I wasn’t interested that day. But I kind of feel like now I’m overfed – too much to read, not enough time to read it. So what goes?
3 Responses to “This is the one about feeds.”
May 30th, 2010 at 7:59 am
There have been a number of articles on lifehacker.com on how to clean up your reader. If you have a site you like to read some of the stuff on, but not all of it (like half the articles are about Macs, or something), you can use Yahoo Pipes, which will take a feed, filter/split/merge/whatever based on your own settings, then produce a new feed.
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May 30th, 2010 at 8:22 am
I found that I have a lot of stuff in mine that I will just “mark as read” if it builds up, or rapidly scroll through. In additional to all my categories, I made a folder “favorites” which is basically the specific websites/blogs that I know I always want to read even when my reader is crazy full. I can read that stuff, clear out most of the rest, and feel ok.
May 31st, 2010 at 11:58 am
124 feeds is crazy, dude. I would say keep the ones you go to regularly, without having to turn to the feed and as Derek says, make a faves list.
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