I am changing my blog subscriptions - Your help is needed
I am bored of the same old crap coming across my feed reader so I have decided to experiment; be ruthless and un-subscribe from anything that I don’t read (value) regularly and look for new fresh thinking and opinions. Sure the odd gem can be, well a “gem” and I may miss them but I am figuring it will be picked up by someone else I read and in the grand scheme of things my signal to noise ratio will still improve. And of course what’s fresh to me may be staple diet to you so I still want to know.
I’ll publish my feed (OPML file) after I have let it bed in for a few weeks.
These are the categories I organize things into;
- Kite Surfing
- Para Gliding
- Formula 1
- Lifestyle (LifeHacker etc)
- Science (non computer related)
- Cool Business (Guy Kawasaki, Presentation Zen etc)
- Humour (indexed etc)
- Real News (BBC etc)
- Microsoft
- Product Management
- My Stuff (Google alerts etc)
- Security Management
- Software Security
- Security Tools Development (people building / thinking about security technology)
- Software Development
- BPM
- Artificial Intelligence
- BI / Dashboards / Visualization
- Tech Gossip
- Web 2.0
And yes I know I could / should publish my current OPML but then I would be publicly saying things are crap and this is the new Mark 
So what are your recommendations?
June 11, 2008 at 9:57 am
I suggest using GReader, maybe with two accounts or more. In your primary account, put all of the feeds that you want to follow. In the other, put all of the ones that you want to have available in case you want to search or look for something specific. You could do the same thing with tags/labels if you wanted to, so that you wouldn’t need more than one account.
My favorite thing about GReader is that it caches all of the blog posts, so when the content disappears I don’t have to go looking for it with the Wayback Machine or other horror story. The search feature is great, and the integration with others is absolutely golden. I’m always more excited to read my Friend’s shared items and add more friends than I am to find a new great feed or see a new post in one of my feeds!
June 18, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Hmmm, I have all mine sorted into Security (Securityfocus, Packetstorm etc.), Technology (GigaOM, Techcrunch, etc.), Finance (Forbes, etc.) and General blogging (Sport, cars, Sydney).
The most frequently read feeds are up top with the rest being dragged to the bottom - this way I can read the most important info (latest security vulnerabilities etc.) first up - and then progress through the other categories.
I’ve also started using del.icio.us a lot more diligently for bookmarking sites that I found something interesting on - but which I might not necessarily want to read *everyday* in my already cluttered feed reader.
I think the key is to minimise the number of categories you have - that way it doesn’t feel like you’ve been bombarded with news…