I have decided to make this a personal blog and from now on I will publish technical posts on my new blog.

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I hope that readers of this blog will subscribe to my new feed and I will be able to interact with you wonderful people. All content on this blog will remain as is. It has taken me sometime to build up Google Juice and I am in no mood of throwing it away.

So these are my departing words for my techie readers. I’ll see you at One .Net Way

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I have always had my doubts on Alexa. I somehow was never convinced about its ranking system. Today I found what could be the mother of all malfunctions. I went to Alex to look at my rankings and I saw this:

So I am ranked 3,354,223 out of whatever gizillion sites out there. I then checked on one of my favourite blogs called Computer Zen written by Scott Hanselman.

So Scott’s blog ranks at 19,703,654 as compared to my 3,354,223. You’ve gotto be kidding me. He has twenty eight thousand subscribers to his feed and my feed subscription is too embarrassing to be mentioned in front of Scott’s. Clearly Alexa is not doing what it is suppose to do.

BTW: I am not loosing sleep over this. Next few days I’ll be telling everyone that my blog ranks better than Computer Zen.

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 ++.