RSS Reset Update
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.