It’s interesting what happens when you clean your blogroll

by on November 27, 2005

I’m seeing some disappointment at not being included in my blogroll anymore (I’ve gotten a few emails, and there are a few blog posts commenting on the fact that their writers aren’t included in my reading anymore). I’m sorry about that. But, I looked at why I wasn’t reading feeds anymore and I realized it just made me tired to look at my feeds. I had subscribed to too many. And now with Memeorandum and Digg I found I didn’t miss many, if any, of the “big” items. So, I pruned back. A lot. Now my list is very high quality and only includes people who write about technology. That means I deleted many of my friends’ feeds. I’m keeping those in a separate feed reader so I can catch up on what people like Halley and Nick are doing, but I wanted my list to stay focused on tech feeds.

  • Good stuff mate. I did this a week or two ago and I'm down to about 100 feeds (from a high of about 600 a year ago). It feels good to be able to read all of them in just 10 minutes.
  • I find it interesting that people would like it more to just be included than actually be read.

    While I of course like to be subscribed to, I find it more important that things I write do have something to add to what people want.
  • I've found myself doing less and less reading, and more and more scanning, particularly by using smart feeds like feedster, technorati, etc.

    Bryan
  • Christopher Coulter
    "I realized it just made me tired to look at my feeds."

    Hahahha, yah 4 years late. Less can be more sometimes, esp. with blogs.
  • Just as an FYI, you have http://www.furrygoat.com/rss.aspx as my RSS feed in your OPML - it's actually http://www.furrygoat.com/index.xml
  • Steve, thanks! I fixed that.
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