From one perspective, I read too many blogs. I subscribe to over 600 blogs at any given time. About a third of those are Daily City Photo blogs, which I highly recommend (especially Steffe's from Haninge, Sweden). I'm agoraphobic and have one friend who doesn't live in the same city. Blogs give me a unique connection to the world--one that previous generations of agoraphobes lacked. I've organized them in many different ways--by topic, by most posts/least posts, and yet reading that many blogs has occasionally been overwhelming. I finally figured out a system that works for me. I divided them between days of the week. It might be the simplicity of the system that's working, or the fact that if I don't get all the posts read for a particular day, I mark them all read at the end of the day. If I finish a day's worth of reading and still have time, I go back and read other days' posts.
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Posted 11 months ago #
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That sounds like a good solution, Jude.
Sorry about the agoraphobia -- i must make life challenging.
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I'm sorry too!
I don't subscribe to one single RSS feed. I tried using the Google Reader back in the days, but didn't like the plain look of the long list, and so I decluttered it. Decided to check individual blogs out, infrequently and when a certain mood hits me (web design, quilting, food and drink, and so on).
Your way of organizing your feed reading sounds like the right way to go. I however could easily get caught in performance mode and would force myself to read all of them even though I might not have the time - and regardless of the fact that I'd be competing only against myself. Silly huh? My paper war at home is proof enough of my "special" approach to information; if I chuck something into recycling I'm less smart since I didn't have time to read it :) *rolls her eyes*
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I'm with ninakk, I don't subscribe to anything and visit sites when in the mood or I have time. I realised I go through cycles of wanting to read organising porn or home decor sites, and if I'm not in the mood then I'm in the mood for something else, hopefully more intellectually stimulating!
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Oh sorry, I didn't mean to sound disparaging about blog reading BTW, your organisation of them sounds like it works great for you Jude! I'm just too much of an online butterfly to stick with blogs, I'll binge and then move on. Does anyone have a good way of organising podcasts, btw? I don't want to subscribe to lots as it fills up my iPod and I usually listen online at home so no need for downloading, but then I forget which are my favourites! Would an RSS feed work for this?
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My favorite way of organizing RSS feeds is to use a Firefox add-on call Brief (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4578). It shows the list of all my subscribed blogs in a list, but makes it easy to skim through postings or "empty" the feed (delete all postings). It uses Firefox's Live Bookmarks, so you just add your RSS feeds to that bookmark folder. You can also create subfolders, so I have some grouped into crafts, food p*rn, organizing, etc.
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