Comments on: Help Me Be More Organized (And Call for Blogroll Additions)

By: Autumn

Autumn — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:19:06 +0000

Feel free to check mine out. http://go-ba-nana.blogspot.com

By: James W.

James W. — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:44:43 +0000

While I don’t organize my feeds in the same Getting Things Done manner, I read them just the same as you. With all of my feeds combined, they typically hit about 1200/day so you can imagine all I ever do is read stuff. From what I’ve found, doing what you’re doing now is about the best way to get through feeds effectively, though not efficiently (reading 100+ blogs a day is in no way efficient and never would be).

All I do is start at the top of my list in Google Reader and hit the biggest posters first: Reddit, Reddit Science, Delicious Science, Treehugger, and about a dozen more. I do it this way because I know that between most of these sites, I’ll see repetitious posts and cross-posting since many deal with the same market (tech, food, etc) so once I read an article about a camera on Gizmodo, I can safely skip straight over it on the other blogs with a slightly different copy-edit post of the same information. It really helps me weed out identical/similar information the quickest.

Once you get to sites that post on a slower frequency, say mine for example, you can just speed read the titles and first few sentences to see if it’s worth reading. After all, good writing is about drawing the reader in with a strong title and a good opener so if a site lacks that, the post won’t end up drawing you in the more you read. If you hit U in Google Reader, it’ll minimize the sidebar so you can get more of a site’s feed on your screen so there’s more to read between posts, it’s a bigger window of “Is this going to interest me or not?” and this is typically how I read most feeds. Google has a video from Robert Scoble on how he reads something like 400-500 feeds a day in a very quick and expedient manner but I’m guessing he’s not like most people and simply wants to read the information but not necessarily retain it (I don’t want to read 3000 posts in a day and remember only a handful, that’s a waste of my time).

By: Jason C. Romero

Jason C. Romero — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:41:43 +0000

I tried putting things into categories, but it just wasn’t working for me. I find that it is easier to just put it into “all items” mode and just skim over the unimportant stuff. I’ve gotten better at it over time, and it keeps me from just leaving things dormant for a long time and then eventually just marking them read anyway. Either way, you should give it a try.

By: liveimagephoto

liveimagephoto — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:34:33 +0000

check out mine http://www.liveimagephoto.com/zenphoto/religion its got an Rss feed too

By: Australian Atheist

Australian Atheist — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:54:35 +0000

I try to post on my blog 4 or 5 times but I have been slack this month because it’s summer.

While I often focus on “Australian” religious issues, in my opinion the arguments I post about are pretty universal.

By: miller

miller — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:42:49 +0000

So is that how you stay on top of the news? I figured that major bloggers just get a ton of news stories e-mailed to them. Myself, I read under ten blogs, and then there are about a dozen more that I only visit when the mood strikes.

My blog is about 1/4 atheism, and rarely covers news. Could you add me anyways?

By: Bad

Bad — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:57:59 +0000

My blog has had an RSS feed for a while now. My subject matter has been pretty evenly split between atheism, skepticism, science-blogging, and civil rights/SoCaS issues. Of course I’d like more free promotion.

By: Epistaxis

Epistaxis — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:12:52 +0000

I just use “live bookmarks” in Firefox, but then I only read three blogs. Even keeping up with only a dozen posts a day, I still find the majority a waste of everyone’s time. Maybe it’s different for people who run blogs that other people actually read – are you obligated to know what everyone else is writing about? I don’t envy that. Yes, I know how old-fashioned and 1.0 I am.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:25:13 +0000

Hiya –

I’d love a link in your blogroll please – http://endcycle.blogspot.com – I blog about whatever I feel like writing about (as most blogs seem to do)… lately, this has included politics, thoughts about black holes, atheism (of course), and Windows networking.

Thanks for your daily awesomeness!

By: cognitive dissident

cognitive dissident — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:30:11 +0000

I browse with Firefox, and use Sage for all my RSS feeds...currently 221. (I need to prune the list!) I blog about many things in addition to atheism, but would welcome being added to your blogroll...