What Are Your RSS Habits?
I am now writing at my new site One .Net Way
On daily bases I read many blogs. Most of these I subscribe to and others I find through Google looking for information. I use FeedDemon as my preferred reader. Somehow none of the online readers work well with me. My subscription list has grown over last few years. I started with the Aussie Bloggers OPML and then kept on adding to the list. At this stage I subscribed to more than 2000 blogs.
Two thousand subscriptions? Yes, it looks like a cluttered piece of information mayhem. Do I read them all. No way. If I did then I’d be spending most of time doing just that and not earning a living. Unfortunately I have not figured out a way to make money just by reading blogs. But that’s for another post. Here is what FeedDemon tells me when I start it up. The software is smart to know that there are thousands of items I have not read and I probably will never read them.
What is the point I am making? The point is that while I have an impressive list of subscriptions I hardly read them. The effect FeedDemon Panic dialog box (shown above) has on me is negative. It makes me feel like I have not done something I should have done.
what is my plan? My plan is to delete all feeds and start again. I plan to subscribe to blogs which are linked to what I am currently working with i.e. LINQ and SharePoint. If I start paying attention to something else then I will not delete feeds related to LINQ or SharePoint. However I will review my subscription list frequently.
Other than this I will subscribe to blogs of Australian DPE team and feeds from User Group sites around Sydney so that I am in the loop about what’s happening in the community.
If you want me as a reader then leave a comment and you may see your feedburner counter go ++.
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