How to read blogs more effectively
My favorite:
9. Add an ‘ignore’ category for blogs that you no longer read - this helps you remember your decision. If you ever come across the blog in the future and think “ooh, I’ll add that to my aggregator”, you’ll see that it’s something you decided wasn’t worth your time.
This should have been number 1 on their list! Okay maybe not… but it’s important to me since I feed I’ve already done a pretty good job of optimizing my feeds. This was one technique that I hadn’t thought of for a problem that I do have sometimes.
My second favorite:
7. Organise your categories not by topic (tech, java, games, news etc) but by importance and/or reading frequency.
Example categories:
Important/Must Read
Daily - blogs you check daily
Every monday - blogs you check every monday
Every friday
Weekly
Monthly
etc
I have so many basketball feeds that I finally ended up doing this last week with them… I haven’t gotten around to doing it with the rest of my feeds, but I may have to soon…
And the bronze medal goes to:
Add a ‘quarantine’ category for new blogs that you’re adding to your aggregator. After a week or so, decide whether you really want to keep that blog and move it to the appropriate category.
I have already implmented this one in my BlogLines. I called the folder Zero T (for Zero Tolerance). That way it appears all the way at the bottom of my feed folders, so I only get to read it when I’m done with everything else.
