Natural Death of RSS Feeds in my Reader
So I got behind in my Google Reader on all the RSS feeds that dump into my “library folder” (to the tune of 1000+ entires). I tend to use the philosophy of “dying a natural death” in regards to out of control content (this includes the piles on my desk). A natural death is when the materials become so buried or overwhelming that are rendered meaningless and thus become “dead” to me. In those cases, I throw them away or erase them all. If it is important it will come back to me reincarnated as something else.
I am wondering if this is efficient or just lazy?
Any advice on how to keep up with RSS feeds or more importantly, how to catch up with the content you have already culled from the wilds of the internet?
Tags: blog, Web2.0/Library2.0
I have a “TONS” folder i demote stuff to, for stuff i don’t keep up with as well, and when i’m behind i dont hesitate to use the handy ole ‘mark all as read’ button, can’t read everything in the world, man
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JEB, I like the idea of a tons folder, I wonder if there is a way to search your folders to cherrypick what you want to read. I will have to look into that.
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I feel your pain! I can’t bring myself to delete things like kottke.org because it’s interesting stuff, but with 200+ unread it amounts to useless. Sometimes I try to get as much as I can cleaned out (which never amounts to much) and sometimes I just read webcomics and let the others pile up. Maybe if I delete the backlog and start over I can do better, not knowing what I missed and having a clean slate.
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