If you’re like me, you will probably check your RSS feed after you’ve emptied your to-do list and encounter several hundred articles! It is essential to check them frequently, but not too frequently, so it doesn’t take hours to read and you don’t miss any interesting articles.
There are ways to keep your RSS load to a minimum:
- Do you use public transport? Use your mobile to read your feeds. Consider using an online reader, like Bloglines, which offers a mobile version
- Use a desktop client, like NetNewsWire, which can sync with online services.
- Subscribe only to blogs which you truly want to read. Perhaps go for blogs with less frequent posts!
- Go for power reads if you can. For 5 minutes every couple of hours, check your feeds to ensure that you don’t end up with a massive load of posts to go through. Time yourself though to ensure you don’t go over 5 minutes!
- Give yourself a limit for one post… perhaps 20 seconds maximum per post (depending on your reading speed!). If you decide to comment, you can obviously exceed this!
Now, it’s time to practise what I preach!
Good list. You might want to also add that you can save a lot of time by having someone else help sort through all the crap (especially for busy feeds like Digg or Gizmodo). I use a service called AideRSS (created by a fellow 9rules member, Ilya Grigorik) for a number of feeds and it definitely saves me a lot of time.
You beat me to it Joe L - I was going to sing AideRSS’s praises too! I’m terrible for losing an hour to feeds when I only intended to check them for a minute or two so I need all the help I can get!
Good list Joe A, keep them coming!
hahaha.. nice list, coz i always miss the good article…maybe im not too like to read from monitor than a book