After going away camping for the second time this summer (this time only for 2 nights), and coming home to 895 new items waiting for me in Google Reader, I’ve started wondering if I really need to give a flying one about all these important things that have been going on since I last sat in front of the computer.
It also makes me think about the time that I’ve probably wasted wading through all of these on a daily basis. I think that I’ve probably not noticed that I have that many posts fly by me on a daily basis because I take them on numerous times a day, and don’t get a realistic count of the time I’m wasting and the clutter that I’m causing.
My downfall in the past was coming across a site that had a post or theme that was interesting to me. If I saw the familiar little RSS icon in my firefox bar, I’d subscribe to it, and file it into my categorized folder system and then just read away. This snowballed and now I’m seeing that I’m a slave to RSS feeds and need to cut the crap.
My plan of attack is to evaluate my feeds as the posts come in. I thought about just hacking away right now, but instead I’ll take the time to actually read every single thing that comes in for a while, and make an educated choice in what gets cut and what stays in my list. Two that I know will stay are Lifehacker and the local news updates for my local paper. Other than that its fair game on the other hundred or so feeds that are dragging my productivity down. In about a weeks time I’ll post an update to discuss my methods and results in my assault on my RSS list.
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