For a long time now, the list of feeds in my reader has been pretty static. I think this is a bad area to get complacent in, for a few reasons, mainly:
- There is a bunch of great content out there to look at, and I’m certainly not seeing a lot of it.
- Getting items from sources I’m no longer really interested in actually takes up cycles I could be better spending elsewhere.
So I’m cleaning house – I’ve junked about a quarter of my feeds and I’m going to be picking up whatever looks interesting for a little while1. If you’ve got suggestions, post them in the comments.
- And tagging them with ‘probation’ along with other tags so I can purge them easily if needed. 🙂 [back]
I use feedster.com to search for topics I’m interested in.
I’ve found several new interesting blogs plus a load of rubbish, but it’s worth it.
Cleaning House
I like Alex’s concept of cleaning house. With my participation in the Blogathon and the attendant lack of sleep/coherence after the fact, I opened up FeedLounge this morning to almost 1000 unread items. Something said, “PURGE!” So…