10 Tips for Blog Reading
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Want to make the most out of your daily dose of blog reading, while avoiding that the "blog reading" activity ends up eating all your day?
Neville and David at "Nev n Dave" have quite a few tips for you, most of them pretty interesting.
- 1- Before going any further investigate different blog readers
- 2 - Try resizing your browser or news reader to make the text appear in a thin column about 8 words wide so that you can speed read it.
- 3 - Before attempting to change your habits, get a handle on your addiction - record how much time you spend reading each of your blogs or blog groups.
- 4 - Now set time limits and times when you’ll read blogs - and stick to them.
- 5 - Limit how many feeds you subscribe to on a particular topic. If you add a new feed, strongly consider deleting one of your old ones.
- 6 - Periodically test your feeds. Leave a feed unread for a week. Then spend some time doing a catchup and ask yourself “was that really worth my time?”
- 7 - Organise your categories not by topic (tech, java, games, news etc) but by importance and/or reading frequency.
- 8 - 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.
- 9 - Add an ‘ignore’ category for blogs that you no longer read
- 10 - Consider subscribing to only a subset of a person’s blog.
The complete list and more tips are available here.
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