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By: Reorganising RSS, Design - | eruANNA

Reorganising RSS, Design - | eruANNA — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:02:50 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:43:25 +0000

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart….

Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

– Carl Gustav Jung

By: tanya

tanya — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:23 +0000

I keep only the ones related to blogging or my blog that I really read daily as feeds. If you publish more than a few times a day – 2 or 3 max, then you get bookmarked. I use personalized Google homepage so I can see latest feeds and display bookmark links. I also conciously do not keep a lot of feeds and if there are a few sites that say pretty much the same thing – I only subscribe to 1.

By: eruANNA » Reorganising RSS, Design and COMPETITION!

eruANNA » Reorganising RSS, Design and COMPETITION! — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:31:52 +0000

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By: Blogger Profesional, in Spanish :-)

Blogger Profesional, in Spanish :-) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:51:03 +0000

same feeling as everyone commenting here, I decided some time ago to keep only the ones I really used to be up to date with the topics I used to blog about, so I manage to reduce to about 50 feeds that I read daily, it was hard choosing, but it was worth it!

By: franky

franky — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:27:35 +0000

Export all your feeds in an OPML, delete them from your feed reader and hand pick the ones you really want to read.

I started from scratch and can’t say anymore ‘I don’t read books, only 400 pages daily anymore, but it feels that nice with only 100 feeds.

By: Anne Helmond

Anne Helmond — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:07:06 +0000

I recognize this issue. I use Netvibes to aggregate my scattered digital self and manage my RSS subscribes. Subscribing to feeds has become so easy that the list just keeps growing and growing. At one point I can’t take it anymore (the sight of so many unread messages) that I skim through my feedlist. I pretty much ask myself the same question as Armen. I just usubscribed from about fifteen feeds yesterday and it’s already pretty calming.

What I notice is that I subscribe to a lot of feeds because of one interesting post but then after a while the feed has offered me nothing more than just that one brilliant post. So I unsubscribe. And then there are the “magazines”. I should maybe pick one day a week to read them all instead of trying to keep up with their five to ten posts a day.

We’re all struggling :)

By: jangelo

jangelo — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:13:08 +0000

I was able to trim down my RSS subscriptions from about 670 to approximately 200. I wasn’t reading all of them anyway.

By: Chris Baskind

Chris Baskind — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:38:54 +0000

Argh! It’s easy to get overwhelmed by your feeds.

I use a local client (in my case, NewsFire). There are more feeds in there than I could ever read. NewsFire gives you the ability to construct Smart Mailboxes, and that’s how I cope.

There’s a big ole Inbox with everything. I hardly use it: too much stuff. I have smart mailboxes for really fresh stuff (unread and posted in the last hour); posts from the last 24 hours (my primary box); and unread posts from the last three days. I also have several boxes which search by keyword.

I peek at the Fresh box during the workday. Once or twice a day, I browse the 24-hour inbox. The keyword boxes get checked frequently, since I’m looking for specific content. I process anything interesting right away by dragging it into Journaler — you could as easily use a folder.

Once a day, I check the unread 3-day box in case I missed something. I have a few sites I check individually.

Saturday morning, I mark everything read and start over.

Anyway, that’s my silly method.

By: Enos

Enos — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:53:37 +0000

I have been feeling this same thing.
I think Armen’s advice is great…
but at the same time a whole lot of whats going on with the web IS beneficial to learn and or be a part of.

so how do you balance…???

the good thing is that a lot of these startups and web20 sites and feeds are sometimes just clones of each other or simply recycled content

“one at a time”,,, is all i keep telling myself….