Allergic to bad blogs
»From the personal and productivity part of the brain.
Me: ”I’ve been so busy,” I said to M, “I don’t even have time to read my blogs.”
M: “You should be able to catch up this weekend.”
Me: ”I’ll probably just read the good ones and mark the rest as read”
M: “The good blogs?”
Me: “Yes,” I reply, delighted I get to explain my blog reading strategy, “I have a folder of good blogs that I read first. It’s a bit like going to a restaurant and ordering the good wines first and the not-so-good wines later. As the night progresses, you drink more wine and, eventually, your palette can’t tell the difference between good or bad wine.”
M: “But you break out in hives when you drink bad wine.”
Me: …
No, I don’t break out in hives when I read bad blogs, but I probably should. I blame Google Reader for my allowing my RSS addiction to flourish. With Bloglines, I found that I could subscribe to about 200 blogs before category management became a nightmare, so I had to be picky about what I subscribed to. With Google Reader–the “New Hotness” edition–I am able to break that barrier since I can manage my categories much more intuitively with the use of labels (aka tags).
Trust me, it’s a bad thing :-)
It helps to read Digg, Reddit, or dzone.com as they tend to aggregate the popular links, which the majority of people tend to regurgitate blog about.
Updated 1/28/2007: I picked up this tidbit from a comment by Robert Scoble over at CrunchNotes:
| Subscriptions | Read | Starred | Shared | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scoblelizer | 504 | 26,308 | Zilch | 1,473 |
| Chung | 266 | 1,213 | 5 | Nada |
That’s RSS-tastic!