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By: James

James — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:47:52 +0000

It is indeed a metric ton of posts but that’s cool in that it gives me a nice project to tick over on whenever I don’t have anything to write about.

What with that and my ’5 things on Friday’, I’m basically sorted for content for the rest of the year.

PLUS I get to share more awesome, as well as become a better blogger along the way

By: Willem van der Horst

Willem van der Horst — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:35:16 +0000

That makes it a lot of posts – I like the idea and as Stefan and others said, excellent way to recommend content. I don’t know that I’ll go back to using a RSS reader though. I’d dropped Google Reader for Netvibes years ago and then dropped RSS altogether for the more random approach of clicking links via Twitter, Facebook and typing in urls of blogs and websites I know when I’m in the mood / have time for reading stuff. The huge number of unread posts on my reader was just depressing and the times when I ventured to go through loads of posts to clear were sheer information overload and felt brain bloated afterwards. Dunno, might give it another whirl, after all I’m still writing in my own blog (occasionally).

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By: Nick Allen

Nick Allen — Thu, 31 May 2012 12:37:23 +0000

I commend you good sir.

I may have a harder job here – and this is after a serous bout of dropping a folder of 50

“From your 462 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 5,630 items, clicked 261 items, starred 229 items, and emailed 4 items.
Since May 10, 2007 you have read a total of 293,713 items.”

By: Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:49:00 +0000

James: Yes, I did finish, though since then I’ve cut back even more on my feeds. These days I have “just” 94 subscriptions, but most of them are actually image blogs (read: Tumblr blogs). Whereas before I had all my feeds in one long list, now I have two folders: Work Stuff and Fun Stuff. The Fun Stuff I don’t stress too much about hitting zero, and the Work Stuff, there are some feeds in there I absolutely devour, while others I leave lingering.

To tell you the truth, I’m not that much of an RSS addict anymore. I’ve augmented my news consumption with Twitter. There I have a hard limit of following a maximum of 100 accounts. I do my best to read every tweet that those 100 people post. If there’s a Twitter account that I want to follow, I painstakingly go through the list of people I’m currently following and decide which one to remove.

There are a lot of curators out there, but there’s only a handful of people who genuinely have something interesting to say.

And as for you “stealing” my idea, I say go for it! Ideas are worthless, it’s all about the execution, and hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Oh and one more thing, I don’t buy this whole “information overload” problem. People just need to be more judicious when it comes to picking the information they actually consume. I’m much the same way on Facebook, with “only” 92 friends.

By: Mike Maddaloni - @thehotiron

Mike Maddaloni - @thehotiron — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:09:40 +0000

Wow – that seems like a lot of work!

I love RSS too, and rely on it more and more, especially as I don’t have a TV anymore. And I do occasionally go thru and weed out some blogs, and have unsubscribed from blogs by people who talk about how great they are, basically talking over my head and not to me.

I also agree GReader isn’t what it used to be, and when I get some free time (with 2 kids, what even is that?!) I am planning to install Fever – http://feedafever.com/ – which comes on high recommendation and can work just like GReader or do analysis on what I really want to read. And of course Google will have no idea what I am reading, all the better.

And not just to suck up, but whatleydude.com will forever be aggregated with the best of them in whatever reader I use for one reason – you make me think!

mp/m

By: James

James — Mon, 28 May 2012 16:42:59 +0000

I’m fairly sure you’ll be copying Stefan, but hey – who’s counting? Share the wealth!