About a week ago, I decided that I was spending far, far too much time obsessively checking my Google Reader RSS feed. On days that I spent working from home, I would click and check the feeds every 30 minutes or so. And of course, because I subscribe to roughly 154 blogs and other misc. websites, there were always at least 30 new posts to sort through.
Realizing that this was totally ludicrous, I decided to scrap RSS feeds altogether, and start actually visiting websites again. I took all (well, most) of the blogs to which I subscribed, and neatly categorized each one into a folder like "News" or "Sports" that sat in my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. The idea is that I would only spend time checking up on the blogs I really cared about, and the ones I didn't I would just click on when I was really bored.
It wasn't a bad idea I guess, but I just don't think it was meant to be. Instead of lazily browsing through RSS feeds on Reader, I spent time lazily clicking around to a bunch of different websites, not completely sure of what I had read already. It also made my bookmarks toolbar look very ugly, with a bunch of folders sitting up there.
So anyway, I'm back on Google Reader, though now with a greatly reduced number of feeds to read through. I am going to scrap the little Google Reader Notifier that sits in my status bar, with the hopes that I won't feel the need to obsessively click every single time there is a new feed that shows up (about every 45 seconds, in other words).
And there is your quarterly update of my blog. Hope you enjoyed reading!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Google Reader, I just can't quit you baby
Posted by Matt Welle at 10:17 PM
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