Why Are You Reading All That News?

Published: December 12, 2007, 12:32 am

When I wrote about my method for controlling RSS overload a couple weeks ago, 43 Folders user terceiro left a comment that put me in my place: You're feeling stress about your RSS feeds? Talk about self-created problems. The real solution to managing RSS feeds is to stop reading RSS feeds. It's simple when a purely optional convenience technology is causing stress, it's time to re-evaluate at a pretty fundamental level. I read this and thrashed and spluttered like Yosemite Sam for a while before I admitted it: he's right. It is a self-created problem, and I need to understand what makes me feel the need to consume the equivalent of a Carnegie library every day, instead of just finding a more efficient way to choke it down.When I read discussions about managing RSS and information overload, I tend to see three justifications for why people need to subscribe to 842 news feeds:I want to stay informed about the world - Meaning, I never want to be one of those

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