Tonight, I was chatting with Corvida, and the topic of RSS feed overflow came up.  We were both frustrated because there was so much new (potentially great) content being produced every day, that we couldn’t keep up!

A radical new plan was hatched that we both agreed to abide by, starting today.  We would dump all our RSS feeds out of Google Reader and only add new feeds based on a set of rules:

1. Keep feeds that track web site buzz (business-impacting).
2. Allow feeds such as Disqus, Intense Debate or other low-volume feeds that are necessary for timely work decisions.
3. Allow adding as many Google Reader Shared Items feeds as needed.
4. Allow adding of aggregate, smart or keyword-filtered feeds such as RSSmeme FriendFeed Friends or TechMeme.
5. Allow adding smaller site feeds.  We set the upper limit for a small site to be 200 at the time of adding.  This can be re-visited if the number is too small.
6. Allowance process: If a site feed is so unique that it is not being covered by the processes defined above, an allowance will be made to subscribe to a direct feed to any site.  The number of allowances can not exceed 10.

This plan will be in effect for 1 month.  We will be dumping our current profiles on Toluu and will make sure it stays in sync with our new OPMLs.

In addition, I will make sure any feed I add gets sent as a tweet from Toluu and I will try to re-visit my feed list week during the month and explain any additions or changes.

I am completely open to suggestions for small, quality site feeds inside or outside the realm of social media as well as links to any google reader shared items feeds!

I’m looking forward to this excitement, both because it hopefully will make my RSS feed reading more manageable, but also because I am adding a huge social filter in to the mix.  I am expecting the best reads to be more visible, while still keeping an eye on the little guy.

If you haven’t noticed it already, I wrote a guest post over on SheGeeks entitled FriendFeed And Your Personal Brand.  If you have 5 minutes, please go check it out!  I think I make a good argument for FriendFeed being a good medium in which to promote yourself via the community:

With the right approach, FriendFeed can not only be a valuable source of news and new opinions, but also a fertile, open community where you can make your name known.

I normally wouldn’t ask this of my readers, but I’m trying to raise the profile of RSSmeme and this is a good eye-catching article. If you use Digg or Mixx, please vote this story up! Thanks!

Curious how many people are using Google Reader notes? In the last 24 hours 4527 new stories have entered into RSSmeme. Of those stories 1059 of them have at least one note attached. Across those 1059 stories are 1202 notes produced by 584 unique users.

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I’ve been sitting on this information for a little while now, but I noticed that my first article, Gmail error 102, has been published — so now it is official! I am going to be a regular contributor to Google Tutor!

Since I am relatively new to blogging, I’m not sure how these things traditionally go, but in this case I was contacted by the Google Tutor creator to contribute.  We settled on new articles three to four times monthly on different Google topics.  You can expect the quality and usefulness on the site to be as good as on here, or better.

Needless to say, I am very excited about this new opportunity!  Hopefully you will find the site useful and will follow my posts.

See you there!

Anybody out there a fan of the webcomic Penny Arcade? It’s a webcomic that’s had consistently funny strips 3 times a week. It is very video game-oriented, but today’s strip is much closer to home!

I’d republish it here but it is mildly NSFW (swear words), so head on over if you have a minute.

Do you use FriendFeed, and follow a bunch of people? You might be interested in this little RSSmeme link that, once you put in you FF username, find the links published by your peeps and ranks them by popularity. Grab the RSS feed and voila, you have a quick-n-dirty feed that exposes you to new blogs that you friends think are read-worthy.

Thanks, FriendFeed Watch, for the news!