Not keeping up with blog reading
Wednesday, June 29 2005
I've found myself in this situation over the past few months. Not just because I've been so slammed at work for the past month, but also because I just have too damn many feeds in my aggregator. :-\
No, I'm not keeping up with your blog.
I would like to. I really would. I like it and I like you.
But we're now well past the point where any of us can keep up with all the blogs worth reading from the people worth keeping up with. Even with an aggregator.
I just can't do it any more.
It's like an addiction. I'm reading one of my normal blogs and they link to someone else who looks interesting. I add them to my aggregator. I keep up with their posts for a week or two and then they slide to the rear of the bus. Meanwhile a few more blogs or sites come along that catch my eye so I add them too. After awhile I've ended up with an aggregator that looks like this and I only read 10-20% of the posts.
I have great intentions, really I do! All of those MSNBC feeds...I do want to keep up on world news, local news, sports and all that other stuff, but I just never get to them. Gone! Those News/Microsoft feeds...they're pretty good, but very repetetive. All but one, gone! The Business & Finance feeds...again, I really want to keep up, but I just don't make the time. Gone!
You get the idea. There are several individual blogs that I just don't read either. I think most of those will be culled too. Of course, there are some feeds (like the MSDN and MSDN Forums groups) that I don't read frequently, but contain some good technical references and are nice to go through once a month. Those will stay.
Anyway, off to clean out the aggregator...
~tod
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