Only 42 Feeds
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 by Mike Rundle
I only subscribe to 42 feeds via Bloglines and I’m not totally sure why. Instead of continuously adding new feeds and new sites I stumble upon, I find myself removing feeds more often than I add them. It’s not that there aren’t other good blogs out there, but I think of it like I own 42 pairs of shoes and there’s 42 days of the week — if I buy a brand new pair of shoes, that means one of the previous 42 won’t get worn in my rotation anymore. I’ve added about 5 new feeds, total, in the past 5 months and have removed about 10-12 feeds that are no longer updated frequently enough or just don’t hold my interest anymore, so my Bloglines list is like a feeding frenzy of blogs all vying for my attention.
Site Update: I’ve changed some small things around here, namely I’m now sporting the hot new Cambria typeface redesigned by Microsoft on post titles and subheaders, so if you snagged the C-bundle of new Vista typefaces then it should show up. Other tweaks include comment styles (slightly nicer) and an .htaccess redirect to my new FeedBurner feed so I can keep better track of stats the redirect worked, but FB’s feed wasn’t updating to indicate this new entry. I know that I have 654 Bloglines subscribers, but I want to see everybody! Let me know if the feed’s not working for you, the switchover should be seamless but tell me if I goofed up. I pinged FB a bunch of times to let them know I updated my blog, but the feed on their end never updated and it’s been about 5 hours since I created it. Anybody know what’s going on?
Reader Comments
8 Responses to “Only 42 Feeds”
Mike, were you aware that your Archives page http://businesslogs.com/archives/ is throwing a 404? I’d dearly love to go back and read some of your older posts but can’t. The Weblog Archives tagcloud is also hard to use for this purpose.
June 21st, 2006 at 11:41 am
Hey Geof, yeah I know about that, and I really have no excuse other than I’ve just been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to put it together yet. The new design isn’t up yet, however you can use the old Archives page from my previous design to check stuff out — it has both Category and Monthly archive listings of posts, so hopefully that helps a bit :)
June 21st, 2006 at 11:46 am
Although now the archives show Mike as the author for every single entry on the site. Which is okay… for the bad ones I wrote. :)
June 21st, 2006 at 1:54 pm
That’s funny - I have exactly 42 feeds in Bloglines, too. I recently deleted 3 or 4 to get down to that number.
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Haha, nice nice. I should add a few more just so I don’t feel like I’m copying you :)
June 22nd, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Why not make that 43 feeds?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/paulstamatiou
June 27th, 2006 at 12:28 am
I highly suggest the newish “Show Only Feeds With New Items” setting in Bloglines. It will take care of your “feeds that don’t update frequently enough” qualification. If they don’t update, you don’t see them. I’d actually *prefer* to have 300 feeds in there if they all only updated once a week or so. The only feeds I can’t stand are the ones that update *too* frequently.
June 28th, 2006 at 1:45 am
I’ve been using the “show only feeds with new items” feature for about a year now and it keeps my sidebar uncluttered.
I’ve also tried to sort my feeds into folders like “web standards” and “design” but I didn’t really like it too much for the simple reason that its hard to categorize some blogs because they have topics that are all over the place. So I have very few folders and the rest is in the main folder uncategorized. I find it easier that way.
I recently unsubscribed to a few blogs that posted to their blog about 20 times a day and it seems to be blogs that belong to the weblogs inc. network like Problogger and the Digital Photography blog. The only blog I’m subscribed to that posts several posts a day is Lifehacker, they throw in enough interesting links to keep me subscribed.
June 28th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
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