RSS Reset Update

June 9, 2008 – 9:51 am

rss-icons About a week ago, Corvida and I kicked off a plan that is now known as RSS Reset.  In my original post, I said I would check back periodically and let you know how I was doing.  And here we are!

In the first followup post, I listed the 40-odd subscriptions I felt could survive the cut (and that I was still interested in following).  I’m not going to re-list all of them here, but let’s touch on the changes:

Feed A / R? Readership Reason / Description
infocalypse Added unknown Eric Rice’s blog.  Added it even on the off-chance it was too big because he always writes about offbeat things.
Michelle’s Blog Added relatively small I found Michelle’s blog through a tweet.  She’s based in Austin.
Not The Knowing One Added small This is my friend Zoey’s blog.  She is a biochemist.
scribkin - Techmeme Search Added me Another biz blog to alert me for scribkin news.
Regular Geek Added A bit bigger than the cap, but since I chat with Rob on friendfeed, I made an exception.
Tw3nty3ight.com Added Billy is a friend of Jeff from (jeff)isageek.  An easy add.
#comments Added Felix appeared on my radar in friendfeed.  He wrote a great little FF app and his blog is even parts thoughtful and funny.
Blog by Jon Bishop Added 30 Jon wrote an article comparing Plurk and Twitter that I quite liked.
nerdflood Added 10 I gotta admit, I love the name.  I follow Nathaniel Payne on friendfeed.
Marketing Nirvana Added Unknown I believe I saw a shared post of Mario’s and decided to add his blog.  A bit of a gamble seeing that I do not know how big his readership is.
Weblog Tools Collection Added Can I make this a business-related follow?  Otherwise, it’s a clear exception.
Colin Walker Added unknown Colin Walker found my blog and has been a consistent commenter and social media blogger.
Scoble’s Link Blog Removed unknown I think I meant to add Scoble’s primary blog feed.
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger Added huge This is a clear exception to the rules, but worth it.  Toluu had a problem with this feed, and kept adding the link blog instead.
Lifehacker: Top Added big Another exceptional feed, but I tempered the flow by only subscribing to entries tagged top.
notes, thoughts, ideas and responses Added Julian Baldwin is another friendfeed add.  A consistent interesting read.
I’m Not Actually a Geek Added unknown Hutch Carpenter is very active on twitter and friendfeed, and always has smashing good posts.
RB | Climbing Added unknown A new compilation feed similar to RSSmeme, but by the clever folks at ReadBurner.
Penny Arcade Added unknown Penny Arcade is a very popular webcomic.
A Better Cyanide & Happiness Feed Added unknown A friend of mine found this Yahoo-Pipe-enabled hack that re-inserts the webcomic back into the feed.
(jeff)isageek.net Added unknown Jeff is an avid social media and new technology fan, and has a great blog.

Overall, I think I am getting 90% of the news I was getting before, but at (guesstimating) 10% the rate!  I honestly don’t get more than 100 – 200 updates a day now, which is very nice.  I don’t think I’m quite there with finding really unusual new stuff, and I do want to add more Google Reader shared feeds, but this is a great start.

Oh, one more note.  I am sharing a lot more of the articles that I am reading now too.  It used to be I shared maybe one out 100 articles, now it’s closer to 1 out of 10.  So that’s a clear sign that the amount of redundant noise has gone down significantly.

On a final note, I am now subscribed both to a RSSmeme popular shared articles feed, and a ReadBurner popular shared articles feed.  I’m seeing a lot of duplication between these two.  At some point, I am going to have to decide which one to go with, but for this last week I wanted to give them both a fair shake and see if I distinctly like one more than the other.

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