Dealing with the Overload
Since moving to a different department at work, one that requires me to be away from my desk for a good portion of the day, I’m finding that I’m being far more selective about how I get my information.
Where it used to be common for me to get all of my feeds caught up completely, I’m finding that I’m more likely to just check one or two feeds and then move on. My primary point of contact now is Twitter, and maybe FriendFeed, although if that gets to be too much as well, I’m going to have to cull the number of feeds that I’m subscribed to there as well.
This is not the way it was supposed to be.
RSS was supposed to be something that made it a lot easier to get access to the information that you wanted, on your terms. Right now Google Reader has 45 subscribed feeds, including the Friendfeed one, which pulls in about 5 feeds on its own. And I can’t keep up. So I’m going to cut even more, although I don’t really want to.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I’m not saying that I always have to get completely caught up with my feed reading in order to feel like I’ve accomplished something. Hardly. But I feel like I’m missing something if I don’t at least make a bit of an effort.
Evidently I need to lower my expectations, and look for more quality stuff. Twitter won’t be cut back at all, because that’s just a matter of starting the client and starting fresh. But for feeds, I’m going to be dropping quite a few, and just keeping the stuff that I consider to be crucial to bringing me the information that I want.
So, how do you deal with the overload?
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Hey Rod, I just wanted to say I found this one though Blogging Notes today and have added it to, too my “read list”.
Hi Dennis - Thanks for the comment and for picking up this site as well. I’ve already subscribed to your feed.
Thanks Rod, I really appreciate that as well