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Josh on July 27, 2005 said:

Thankyou. I really needed this. I’ve been trying to come to terms with the fact that there isn’t enough time in the day to be on top of EVERYTHING online, all the time.

I find myself trying to read all my feeds so I can be ‘up to date’ on all the tech happenings, so I can be more productive.. except I use all of my productivity time reading feeds.

Josh on July 27, 2005 said:

I forgot to add something. Be careful with del.icio.us feeds, and similar things. I had del.icio.us, del.icio.us/popular, and my del.icio.us inbox feeds on my RSS reader. Instead of helping me find good links, it simply overwhelmed me. Everytime I logged in (and I was logging in every hour or two), I’d have 600 or so items between the del.icio.us feeds.

The site just moves too fast.

Bob Walsh on July 27, 2005 said:

Great Post! “overblogification” is fast beating email as something that gobbles up the day.

That said, what do you suggest as a way to follow topics you are interested in (GTD, Project Management) in the blogosphere in a manageable way?

Mike on July 27, 2005 said:

None of us would have these problems if D. Keith Robinson didn’t have so many Blogs!

Seriously though, good tips, I’ve had a bit of a struggle with this since Thunderbird came out and I started reading most of my favorite blogs as feeds. I think an additional tip if you’re going to read a whole bunch of feeds: Don’t do what I do. Don’t integrate feeds with your email.

Having a dedicated program for feeds might be one more RAM commitment on your part, but having unread feeds glaring at you from your email box is a difficult proposition when it comes to sorting through stuff (and I do mean “stuff” in the David Allen sense; feeds have great info but they’re “stuff” until you have a chance to really read them rather than browse, just like you said). It sounds like a great idea to have everything there in one spot, but the types of information coming into your mailbox and your feed reader are unlikely to be related.

Great stuff, I’m envious of your multi-blog superpowers.

Moses on July 27, 2005 said:

There’s an easier solution: don’t read blogs any more. Well, certainly not as any kind of duty. Never subscribed to feeds, seems like a way to deal with an addiction instead of just not having an addiction. Also, stop reading comments. They rarely have anything to say.

For instance, I don’t have your site bookmarked. I don’t think it’s interesting enough to visit often. Not having a bookmark makes you forget a site exists. This is an immense time saver. So how do I come here? Well I see a link to your site on some other site I look at and think, I haven’t looked at that for a while, I’ll have a look if there’s anything interesting. I do this with many sites. Forgetting sites exist is a great streamliner. I rarely have more than ten blog bookmarks. If they grow, I prune. Ruthlessly.

One day I will stop using the web just to idle away time and only use it for finding information. But that’s a counsel of perfection. Seems I actually like to waste and idle time every so often. Just try not to do it too often. I’m aware of the problem, but I’m far more ruthless than you seem to be. I don’t see any point regarding blog reading as akin to getting through your email inbox. The more activities we define as chores by the way we respond to them the less pleasure we’ll get from any of them. Wouldn’t you agree?

JimL on July 28, 2005 said:

I am very new to RSS feeds. For all that I have yet to learn about blogs and feeds, after reading this post I am very glad that I am using My Yahoo! for my RSS feeds—and NOT some Outlook add-in or dedicated software.

Recently I have spent a decent amount of time checking my feeds and finding new, worthwhile ones, most of them work-related. But I have managed to reduce the amount of time I spend on this quite a bit. And I haven’t hesitated to cancel a few feeds here and there. I suppose this means that I’m beginning to value my time more and more.

While I know I must be missing something by not exploring alternative methods, I am very content for now to keep using My Yahoo! to keep up on things.

Erik Mallinson on July 28, 2005 said:

I’m in agreement with you here. Though I take a more hardline approach. I have a few different categories set up for what I should be reading (events, music, web design) and an ‘other’ folder, which has subfolders of specific categories. I keep the ‘other’ folder closed when I need to focus on work. When I want to relax and read about things that don’t count as ‘work’ I open it up. I find this gets rid of the temptation of being totally distracted.

I also run a separate program, Liferea, so that it’s not tempting to check it all the time. It’s my favorite of linux apps because it has categorization, and it can ‘open in new tab’ in firefox.

mouser on July 28, 2005 said:

A program that reports and highlights changes on webpages is essential for this; far beats any rss reader for keeping up with blogs, imho:

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USe Onfolio 2.0. It costs money but it does a great job of tracking feeds and integrating them into a personal database on whatever it is you are researching. If you want to keep and then be able to find again the info you get from the web you ought to use Onfolio. Only the 2.o does all this.

Peter on July 29, 2005 said:

Wow, great minds think alike! I had many similar thoughts in June when I wrote up I might be keeping up with your blog. My entry was written specifically in response to a post by David Weinberger, but contains a lot of useful blog-reading tips. It’s written from the point of view of a Bloglines user, but could apply to any sort of blog reading client.

Peter on July 29, 2005 said:

Oops. The link in my last comment should be this... I left the ‘l’ off of the end. I’ve since written a mod_rewrite rule to handle mistaken urls, but just for posterity, there you go.

tim on July 29, 2005 said:

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Harmony on August 2, 2005 said:

I really agree with Moses. I used to catch up with about 30 blogs a day, plus LiveJournal, and at least two forums. I’d wonder why I’d get home and suddenly have no time left at the end of the night. Over a few months I ditched all of them, even those blogs I’d been following for years, it was just too much of a chore to keep up to date.

Now, provided I have R&D time available at work, I give myself Friday mornings to catch up on feeds related directly to my work, and at home I have only a few news feeds which I can get through in an hour on a Saturday. It all feels like much less of a chore now, and I don’t actually miss any of the content I chose to stop reading. I like the fact that now I’m ‘doing’ a lot more than I am ‘reading’ :)

shirazi on August 8, 2005 said:

Taken these very productive tips. Thanks.

Mari on August 12, 2005 said:

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Excellent overall tips! Thank for this post, this is what I’ve needed. One of the best tips you’ve given is to slow down and actually read instead of continuously browse. I feel as though I’m being more productive when I speed through these blogs, but you are right, we must actually read the most important ones.

Great tips!

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