Comments on: How NOT to “Keep Up”

By: JoshHinds

JoshHinds — Tue, 02 May 2006 23:34:56 +0000

A resource that I’ve found helpful in keeping up with things that need to be read (so long as it’s digital anyway) is an app called Readplease, I use the free version, and it doesn’t sound as much like a robot as similair programs like it do that I’ve tested. I cringe to look back to when I had to rely on my reading speed alone to keep up…lol

By: Maria Palma

Maria Palma — Tue, 02 May 2006 06:44:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, Darren. I was feeling a little overwhelmed today about not being able to read everything in my “pile”. So instead, I skipped everything and stayed in bed until 2 pm, had an ice cream cone, and played “Connect Four”. Sometimes you just need to do that to put everything into perspective :)

By: Chris Albon

Chris Albon — Mon, 01 May 2006 18:27:16 +0000

By far the best RSS reader I have found is not an RSS reader at all, but rather Google’s Personalized Desktop.

I have about 200+ RSS feeds I monitor, but I only care about certain article topics. Once I added all the feeds to Google’s Personalized Homepage I was able to skim the titles of about all 200+ feed’s 500+ articles in about 2 minutes (since the GPH only shows titles), openning up the articles I REALLY want to read in tabs.

Then, I spend about 30 minutes to read through all the articles (normally about 15) and I’m done for the day.

By: Power Play

Power Play — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:26:05 +0000

The assertions are spot on.
Often I’ll hear much of the news on the radio and simply search the news sites for what interests me, brushing past the ones I already heard that don’t especially interest me.
Same with the newspapers.

By: Paulo

Paulo — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:24:28 +0000

This is one reason I switched back to Kinja for my feed reading needs. It was just getting too stressful to follow over two hundred feeds every day. You can't drink a river with a cup -- you have to sit on the banks and watch the current flow by.

By: Cary

Cary — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:13:28 +0000

Amazing, too, what happens when you stop reading so much, and start really putting your time into writing…your blog grows and so does your readership.

I cleared about 50% of my feed list, and I am SOOOOO much more productive.

Oh yeah, and I don’t feel like I’m constantly running a race!

By: brem

brem — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:09:45 +0000

Sometimes, it’s like the rabbit hole…

The “one more page” syndrome I call it.