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]]> By: Giorgos http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-208213 Giorgos Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:01:19 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-208213 Nice... Nice…

]]> By:   Wanted: Google Gadgets on Mac OS X by Apple Gazette http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-58437   Wanted: Google Gadgets on Mac OS X by Apple Gazette Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:05:23 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-58437 [...] Google Gadgets thinks for me! I recently wrote on Blogging Pro about my Bloglines RSS subscriptions being too cumbersome to manage since it’s grown to more than 600 feeds. I used to rely on the Web Clips Gadget for my feeds. What’s great about it is that Web Clips automatically updates its feed list based on my frequently accessed websites. [...] [...] Google Gadgets thinks for me! I recently wrote on Blogging Pro about my Bloglines RSS subscriptions being too cumbersome to manage since it’s grown to more than 600 feeds. I used to rely on the Web Clips Gadget for my feeds. What’s great about it is that Web Clips automatically updates its feed list based on my frequently accessed websites. [...]

]]> By: Nothing to Declare » The demise of blogging http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-57318 Nothing to Declare » The demise of blogging Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:43:05 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-57318 [...] It seems ironic that one should write a blog about blogging being on the wane, but it is. History will put the start of the blog-downturn when Robert Scoble left Microsoft, as (perhaps) he found it impossible to square his corporate and blogging existences. He’s now a PodTech blogger, and spends as much time promoting his multimedia show as he does talking tech. Which is fine. Similar examples can be found here and there - a journalist leaves a publication because he says something out of line, implying that those who remain will be expected not to; links to blogs indicate that the blog is no longer kept up to date, as the blogger now works for XYZ-insights.com, the Web-based publication. The number of blogs may still be on the increase, but this is more a factor of the simplicity of the mechanism than the betterment of the blogosphere as a whole. Up at the top, the club of elite bloggers in each sphere is now saturated, or if not it shortly will be. Bloggers of all persuasions are talking about cutting down the numbers on their blogrolls, implying that the number of relationships they can maintain is arriving at a sustainable level. From that point on the growth is organic, not exponential. [...] [...] It seems ironic that one should write a blog about blogging being on the wane, but it is. History will put the start of the blog-downturn when Robert Scoble left Microsoft, as (perhaps) he found it impossible to square his corporate and blogging existences. He’s now a PodTech blogger, and spends as much time promoting his multimedia show as he does talking tech. Which is fine. Similar examples can be found here and there – a journalist leaves a publication because he says something out of line, implying that those who remain will be expected not to; links to blogs indicate that the blog is no longer kept up to date, as the blogger now works for XYZ-insights.com, the Web-based publication. The number of blogs may still be on the increase, but this is more a factor of the simplicity of the mechanism than the betterment of the blogosphere as a whole. Up at the top, the club of elite bloggers in each sphere is now saturated, or if not it shortly will be. Bloggers of all persuasions are talking about cutting down the numbers on their blogrolls, implying that the number of relationships they can maintain is arriving at a sustainable level. From that point on the growth is organic, not exponential. [...]

]]> By:   Bloglines Now Faster by Blogging Pro http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-52023   Bloglines Now Faster by Blogging Pro Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:25:22 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-52023 [...] Bloglines Now Faster A while back, I ranted about how my Bloglines feeds page keeps on making Firefox display that “unresponsive script” warning due to the long time the Javascript takes to process the information–I have about 650+ feeds, not all of which I get to read on a regular basis. I have since then manually lengthened the time the browser waits for scripts to finish (instructions here at LifeHacker), but FireFox still freezes for a while whenever Bloglines refreshes. [...] [...] Bloglines Now Faster A while back, I ranted about how my Bloglines feeds page keeps on making Firefox display that “unresponsive script” warning due to the long time the Javascript takes to process the information–I have about 650+ feeds, not all of which I get to read on a regular basis. I have since then manually lengthened the time the browser waits for scripts to finish (instructions here at LifeHacker), but FireFox still freezes for a while whenever Bloglines refreshes. [...]

]]> By: Jude http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-44005 Jude Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:37:01 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-44005 I currently have 380 bloglines feeds. I use the option suggested by Ben Lowery above. I also decided to allow myself no more than 400 feeds. I have lots of folders for different categories. I also have probation folders where I stick new subscriptions. About once a week I go through the probation subscriptions and decide which ones to keep. Because I have a self-imposed upper limit on feeds, I also have a folder called "blogs to subscribe to" so that if I find a likely candidate but I have too many subscriptions, I can stick a blog there and subscribe to it when I have room. In the case of your blog, which I just subscribed to, because of the person who recommended it, I filed it immediately in my Computers folder. If I'd bumped into it by accident, I would have stuck it into a probation folder. I currently have 380 bloglines feeds. I use the option suggested by Ben Lowery above. I also decided to allow myself no more than 400 feeds. I have lots of folders for different categories. I also have probation folders where I stick new subscriptions. About once a week I go through the probation subscriptions and decide which ones to keep. Because I have a self-imposed upper limit on feeds, I also have a folder called “blogs to subscribe to” so that if I find a likely candidate but I have too many subscriptions, I can stick a blog there and subscribe to it when I have room. In the case of your blog, which I just subscribed to, because of the person who recommended it, I filed it immediately in my Computers folder. If I’d bumped into it by accident, I would have stuck it into a probation folder.

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-42575 J. Angelo Racoma Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:15:13 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-42575 Hmm. I think I just did that out of convenience. Bad idea perhaps. Hmm. I think I just did that out of convenience. Bad idea perhaps.

]]> By: didats http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-41570 didats Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:05:27 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-41570 since i found thunderbird, i didn't use bloglines anymore. i think thunderbird is one of a good software to get the rss feeds. one suggestion from me, you should separate your blogroll with your rss feeds. is that comfortable to mix it into bloglines? i don't think so.. :D since i found thunderbird, i didn’t use bloglines anymore. i think thunderbird is one of a good software to get the rss feeds.

one suggestion from me,
you should separate your blogroll with your rss feeds. is that comfortable to mix it into bloglines? i don’t think so.. :D

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-41569 J. Angelo Racoma Tue, 12 Sep 2006 03:01:09 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-41569 Thanks for the visit, Ben. It's good to know you guys are working on making your code more efficient. Thanks for the visit, Ben. It’s good to know you guys are working on making your code more efficient.

]]> By: Ben Lowery http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-41433 Ben Lowery Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:18:53 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-41433 Hi Angelo, Sorry to see you're running into that problem with Bloglines. One way you might be able to mitigate it is by turning on the "Show only updated feeds" option under Account -> Feed Options -> Subscription Display. That will limit the feed tree to only things that have changes since the last time you visited. You mentioned that you don't visit all that often, so this might not help as much as it could, as most of your feeds may have updates, but it's worth a shot. The problem stems from firefox trying to prevent any javascript from eating up all of your CPU. Any script that runs longer than a certain number of seconds will trigger the dialog you're seeing, and the tree generation script sometimes does that for the users will a large number of feeds on older machines. We're working on making the tree generation code more efficient to prevent this from happening in the future. Thanks for reporting the issue, --ben (bloglines ui engineer) Hi Angelo,

Sorry to see you’re running into that problem with Bloglines. One way you might be able to mitigate it is by turning on the “Show only updated feeds” option under Account -> Feed Options -> Subscription Display. That will limit the feed tree to only things that have changes since the last time you visited. You mentioned that you don’t visit all that often, so this might not help as much as it could, as most of your feeds may have updates, but it’s worth a shot.

The problem stems from firefox trying to prevent any javascript from eating up all of your CPU. Any script that runs longer than a certain number of seconds will trigger the dialog you’re seeing, and the tree generation script sometimes does that for the users will a large number of feeds on older machines. We’re working on making the tree generation code more efficient to prevent this from happening in the future.

Thanks for reporting the issue,

–ben (bloglines ui engineer)

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40842 J. Angelo Racoma Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:41:51 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40842 Hmm. Thanks for the suggestions on your post, Cleverclogs! Bruno, that could work, too. I could probably just put all the feeds I'm not actively reading in an "archive" folder and then archive feeds monthly from then on. Still, sometimes I'm tempted to delete all of 'em and start anew. Hmm. Thanks for the suggestions on your post, Cleverclogs!

Bruno, that could work, too. I could probably just put all the feeds I’m not actively reading in an “archive” folder and then archive feeds monthly from then on.

Still, sometimes I’m tempted to delete all of ‘em and start anew.

]]> By: Bruno Amaral http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40829 Bruno Amaral Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:51:03 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40829 Well I'm facing the same issue with 100 or so feeds. my first solution is to throw some of them into a "monthly" folder, checked only if I'm really bored. The rest of the stuff gets sent to a proper category folder. Well I’m facing the same issue with 100 or so feeds.

my first solution is to throw some of them into a “monthly” folder, checked only if I’m really bored. The rest of the stuff gets sent to a proper category folder.

]]> By: CleverClogs http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40787 CleverClogs Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:07:38 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40787 <strong>9 RSS Reader Housekeeping Secrets...</strong> I made the decision not to worry so much about the number of my subscriptions, knowing that BlogBridge easily handles large amounts of subscriptions, but more about the quality of the feeds that I keep. In fact, I'm noticing that... 9 RSS Reader Housekeeping Secrets…

I made the decision not to worry so much about the number of my subscriptions, knowing that BlogBridge easily handles large amounts of subscriptions, but more about the quality of the feeds that I keep. In fact, I’m noticing that…

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40649 J. Angelo Racoma Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:12:43 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40649 <a href="http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox/put-off-firefox-15s-unresponsive-script-dialogue-162574.php" rel="nofollow">Lifehacker has a post on the solution</a> for Firefox (w/c actually happens not only on Bloglines, but any other site with slow-loading scripts). Still, the problem is not just about Firefox, but about organizing feeds! Lifehacker has a post on the solution for Firefox (w/c actually happens not only on Bloglines, but any other site with slow-loading scripts). Still, the problem is not just about Firefox, but about organizing feeds!

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40646 J. Angelo Racoma Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:07:06 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40646 Thanks for the tip, Giovy. I've checked out the screenshots. Looks okay. I'll try signing up for an account in a bit. I guess moving from bloglines to there would be a breeze, as with any RSS reader with OPML import feature. But of course, my intent is to come up with a clean feed list, so I guess I'll probably start from scratch (or somewhere in between scratch and having to import everything). Meanwhile, the hunt is still on! :) Thanks for the tip, Giovy. I’ve checked out the screenshots. Looks okay. I’ll try signing up for an account in a bit. I guess moving from bloglines to there would be a breeze, as with any RSS reader with OPML import feature. But of course, my intent is to come up with a clean feed list, so I guess I’ll probably start from scratch (or somewhere in between scratch and having to import everything).

Meanwhile, the hunt is still on! :)

]]> By: Giovy http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40629 Giovy Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:37:51 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40629 I use Newsalloy (www.newsalloy.com) to read all my feeds. A light AJAX-enabled feed reader, with tons of feature, higly configurable and... is free! :) You can use the Newsalloy API's to generate your blogroll and export your feed list in OPML format. Try it, and let me know! ;) I use Newsalloy (www.newsalloy.com) to read all my feeds.
A light AJAX-enabled feed reader, with tons of feature, higly configurable and… is free! :)
You can use the Newsalloy API’s to generate your blogroll and export your feed list in OPML format.

Try it, and let me know! ;)

]]> By: J. Angelo Racoma http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40611 J. Angelo Racoma Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:04:30 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40611 I used to use feeddemon (the free version). Found it quite cumbersome as I work across different computers (desktop and laptop). So I realized that a web solution was best. I used to use feeddemon (the free version). Found it quite cumbersome as I work across different computers (desktop and laptop). So I realized that a web solution was best.

]]> By: Aaron B. Hockley http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40571 Aaron B. Hockley Sat, 09 Sep 2006 04:56:15 +0000 http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2006/09/08/the-probloggers-dilemma-trimming-down-my-feed-subscriptions/#comment-40571 Won't help you with Bloglines, but FeedDemon has a couple features to manage stale feeds. One is that it will tell you the feeds which you pay least attention to (don't ever click on) and the other is that it has a wizard to clean out old content. Won’t help you with Bloglines, but FeedDemon has a couple features to manage stale feeds. One is that it will tell you the feeds which you pay least attention to (don’t ever click on) and the other is that it has a wizard to clean out old content.

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