Pruning
Feeds I recently removed from my RSS aggregator:
- Next Generation - This is probably a volume issue. Next Gen has some great breaking stories and analysis on the latest trends in video games and electronic entertainment, but there’s just too much to keep up with.
- Atlanta Drink Specials - The best example I can find of a site that is regularly updated that is NOT best read via an RSS feed. Their feed largely consists of the exact same specials repeated every day, with only minor changes.
- Peach Pundit - Don’t worry, local politics scene, I still love you… I just find that I don’t get much out of Peach Pundit anymore that I haven’t already read elsewhere.
- Joystiq - Did I mention I already subscribe to too many video game feeds?
- Coolest Gadgets - I honestly just got tired of this site posting the same crap as OhGizmo, Gizmodo, Engadget, blah, blah, blah. Oh, and too many concept gadgets. I want to read about things I can buy sometime in the next twelve months.
Look, this may seem like a lot, but trust me, I’ll just have to make do with the other 120+ feeds I subscribe to.
April 5th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I should prune too. I’ve got 638 unread items in Bloglines which I obviously am not going to read.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Yeah, at some point you just want to get back to where you can read all of the items that are posted in one week, er, in that week. My problem was that I had to go in once a month and mark thousands of items as read, which obviously means that I have lots of feeds that I don’t really need to subscribe to.