Unless you enjoy being inundated, you’ve got to pull what you want from the web rather than take everything the web pushes at you. That’s what RSS is for: it enables you to subscribe to content that interests you.
Google Reader is excellent for managing your subscriptions with RSS. Google Reader makes it easy to subscribe to a site, to see what’s new, and to read previously unread items. Sometimes that works for me; other times I might prefer picking through a list of titles for what I want or having articles flow by one-by-one.
The Flow page on my blog is my frequent jumping-off point for keeping up on the web.
Do you have a non-vanilla approach to reading your feeds? Any suggestions?
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I scan the titles as well, for instance, I saw the title for this entry and it immediately caught my attention because I constantly am battling information overload. I love gaining new insights. So I was curious to see what you had to say about the matter.
Being an information glutton I am constantly battling information overdose and RSS feeds are the hypodermic needle that deliver my fix. I follow a link from one of my main reads to a new blog and I love the post that I read there. So I subscribe to its RSS feed. After about three months I have over a 100 feeds and there is no way I can even review all of the titles.
As a result, I must occasionally go through my list of feeds and purge those that I very rarely get to look at. It’s like cleaning out the attic and having to decide to get rid of items that have a smidgeon of sentimental value but you can’t justify keeping ithem because you need the space.
I use an iGoogle page - the blogs I rely on dearly I make their own pod. All others sit in google reader pod. Next to those are twitter, 2 gmail boxes, and my delicous links. Then there’s my Google Notebook so I can write down important stuff that comes to me. Finally, is the to-do-list pod - for action items. And that’s just one tab in my iGoogle. That’s how I flow :)
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