RSS overload

by Jason Preston on March 16, 2007

If you think any of this gibberish looks interesting, you should poke around and subscribe to my RSS feed to keep up with new content.

I know this happens to everyone who, as I do, compulsively signs up to RSS feeds whenever they’re available. “I’ll read this now,” I think, “because it’s in the place where I go to read things.”

But as my RSS reader has gradually filled up with sites from all over the internet on all kinds of topics, I’ve taken to avoiding it. If I open the reader, then I’ll have to read them! Gah!

Since I’m about two weeks behind on all my feed right now, I just gave up and decided to MARK ALL AS READ. Screw it. I’m not back-reading. Look forward, not into the past ;)

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{ 4 comments }

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Corvus 03.16.07 at 12:00 pm

You’re using Google Reader, ja? I have every tagged multiple ways so I can prioritize my purges should I fall behind.

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Jason 03.16.07 at 12:07 pm

I should really take a closer look at tagging in Google Reader. I think the problem is that initially I imported my list with some pre-structure setup instead of grabbing feed individually, so now I’ve got some byzantine hybrid of folders and tags to deal with.

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Corvus 03.16.07 at 12:41 pm

Tags, in essence, become folders. So you can have a post in multiple folders. You, for example, are in my New Media, Etc, and Friends folders. Flicker Gaming was in my Games and E-Zines folders.

It works well for me because it allows me to focus on which aspect of any given topic I want to focus on first. It also makes it much more manageable to stay on top of my every growing feed list.

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Sohail A. Rahim 03.16.07 at 6:16 pm

hmm… sounds familiar… reminds me of what happened to the newsgroups.. and the news readers..

go away for a week.. and that’s the end of it.. no chance of catching up (unless you’re unemployed/very very rich and have a lot of time on your hands)…

i tend to use the google in-browser thingy to read subscribe to rss (and google is my homepage)… so it’s always there in front of me, with the latest 3 feeds everytime i open up a browser window..

Sohail.

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