Comments on: Simplify Your RSS Feed Reading

By: This Week’s Highlights « Hey Stephanie

This Week’s Highlights « Hey Stephanie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:36:24 +0000

[...] Reader that’s waiting to be read. While I filter through these unread items and take steps to simplify and organize my RSS feeds, here are a couple of standout posts, websites, and tools that I found worthy to be highlighted [...]

By: Simplify RSS reading habits and save time every day!

Simplify RSS reading habits and save time every day! — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:58:31 +0000

[...] Simplifying RSS is a topic that’s been covered before – but I just wanted to highlight how a few simple steps have reduced my RSS habit to less than 20 minutes twice a day. [...]

By: Lee White

Lee White — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:06:42 +0000

Another trick I learned from Steve Rubel. If you use Google Reader, when you want to cut down the feeds you don’t read often, don’t dump the feed, put it in a folder labeled Archive. Then you can use the functionality of Google Reader Search.

I let the Archive build up and every week or so I open it and click “Mark all as read”. This builds up a nice little custom search engine that just accesses feeds from sources that you are interested in.

By: Mejora la forma de leer tus feeds RSS - elWebmaster.com

Mejora la forma de leer tus feeds RSS - elWebmaster.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:16:35 +0000

[...] Fuente: Web Worker Daily [...]

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:05:40 +0000

I've thought a lot about this, and I recommend the same thing to clients for *all* electronic "incoming" - For email I wrote Got the email blues? Only three things you can do: Get fewer, Get faster, Get control. Sound familiar? :-) For RSS, getting fewer requires stringent application of Koch's 80-20 principle. (And before you think "yea yea, 80-20" *read* the book. There's a lot more too it than you think.) Unfortunately, there's a HUGE opportunity for tool-makers (Bloglines and Google Reader) to help with this. Nothing so far (see Information provenance - the missing link between attention, RSS feeds, and value-based filtering). To get faster, apply best practices for processing and organizing information (see Afraid to click? How to efficiently process your RSS feeds). And to get control, block out time, set a timer, etc. All the good tips on habits you see on this site. Good topic!

By: Zia

Zia — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:16:14 +0000

I use Netvibes.

I have set up different pages (General News, Blogs, Social Sites, Tech, etc.).

I have found Netvibes very powerful as I can see headlines from up to 9-12 RSS feed sources at any given times.

If I am in a hurry, I inspect my ‘Essential feeds’ page where I have listed all my most important feeds which I can view in less than 10 seconds.

By: Martin Muehl

Martin Muehl — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:21:37 +0000

A good opportunity to cut your feeds is when you didn’t look at them for a while and have like 550 unread items. Then you simply go through them and if none of the articles a blog has published is worth reading, just cut it.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:17:53 +0000

I use illumio as a feed reader. Overall I'm subscribed to more than 150 feeds in 10 different topic areas, but illumio filters these according to my interests. I see the most interesting articles automatically without having to throw out feeds that every once in a while might publish an interesting item.

By: Peldi

Peldi — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:01:41 +0000

well, you’re one of my top 10…care to share what your top 10 are?

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:34:43 +0000

I routinely (at least once a week) look at which feeds I have in Google Reader and decide which I don’t want, need, or don’t update regularly enough for me. I have to say that I can’t stick to just five a day…there are so many that interest me from daily journals of other bloggers to new Windows Mobile apps that come out.

What if WWD had that sixth feed! :-O