Time to Clean House on my Feeds
If you're in the market for a powerful and user friendly Help Desk solution, please take a look at my company's flagship product HelpSpot.I don't feel like there's as much interesting stuff in my newsreader as there used to be. There used to be tons of great stuff, now it's littered with dead sites, uninteresting sites, and sites I don't even know why I'm subscribed to. I need some injections of new ideas, I just feel tired of these old feeds. So I'm going to trim my 192 feeds down to 80 or so. Hopefully that will make space for some of my new subscriptions to get read more.
Update: Got down to 89, though 1 is mine and 8 are generic search feeds so I did make it to 80 actually individual blog feeds. Sorry to say alot of ISV's had to go. They simply didn't update enough to warrant their spot. Hopefully some new ones will popup to take their place.
Discussion
Did you consider subscribing to planet Micro-ISV? http://uisv.ev-en.org/ A lot of Micro-ISV sites, conveniently in one feed.
Created by lena on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
I did the same a week or so ago, but dropped from 176 down to a current 121.
Again, 22 are search feeds, 6 are my public feeds and 4 are private.
So that's 89 feeds outside of my own and search.
I found the dinosaurs feature of NetNewsWire very useful for this clean out!
Created by Ian M. Jones on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
I prefer low-activity blogs to ultra-noisy ones...
http://www.apptranslator.com/blog/2006/02/i-prefer-low-activity-blogs-to-ultra.html
Created by Serge Wautier on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
Yes, I am subscribed to that feed Lena. I like it alot.
Yep, dinosaurs features of NNW is killer!
I sort of agree Serge, but if you only post once every few months you got to go. I kept a few low posters, where the quality was to good to ditch, but most had to go.
Created by Ian on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
Also Serge, my big problem was that I often subscribe to new ISV's who start blogs. They start out strong with a few good posts then they usually just stop posting. I find that about 70% of them just fall off and never return, so I end up with all these dead feeds.
Created by Ian on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
Down, but not out. 
(see my latest post)
Created by Michael Sica on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
I'm not going to lie, I hovered over the delete button, but you're still in there. 
Created by Ian on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
Whew! I made it by the skin of my teeth!
Created by Michael Sica on 02.12.2006 1:02 pm
[...] But, this is also getting out of hand. There are so many interesting blogs out there about all kinds of topics, that I find my RSS reader getting heavily weighed down with all the subscriptions that it needs to keep updated. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t keep up with all of them and often just click the “Set All to Read” button. My RSS subscriptions need a serious pruning. [...]
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