Slimming Down my Feed Subscriptions (or RSS: Richard Simmons Style)

Published: August 6, 2007, 1:33 am

Before I used NetNewsWire I only had about a dozen weblogs bookmarked in Safari. Every day or two I would open each website (one at a time), and check for new articles. If there were none, then perhaps I would spend some time browsing through the archives. To me, each website was special, and got treated - I suspect - how every weblog author wished his site was treated. But now that I use a feed reader to manage my favorite weblogs it is almost too easy to add another feed to the list. Making the other feeds a little less important. Obviously the problem of keeping up with new content has been solved, but another problem has been created: too much incoming information. It’s completely common to come across one or two good blogs every day. And before long my feed subscriptions are out of control again. Turning the process of reading my favorite blogs from something that should be fun and enjoyable into something that’s more like “YIKES!” With so many feeds to

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