Too Much of a Good Thing? Managing "Megablogs"
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By Krista
"Megablogs" are becoming a serious Google Reader-management issue for me. (Perhaps I've coined a new term here, if so (R)) The culprits for me are Jalopnik, Deadspin, Wonkette, and LifeHacker, 3 of which are managed by Gawker Media. All great sites, but I just do not have the inclination or time to read 30-60 posts a day on any subject. And if you miss a day, you get the digital equivalent of War and Peace in your reader quickly. The minimalists of the world would say just unsubscribe, but it isn't bad content, just too much content.
Any ideas?
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2 Responses to Too Much of a Good Thing? Managing "Megablogs"
I use the "auto" sorting option (view settings>sort by auto) and that helps keep the low volume feed items from getting lost in the shuffle. I will also periodically just look at the highest volume feeds and just "mark all read" if I'm feeling too overwhelmed.
"Auto-sort works by prioritizing subscriptions with fewer items. This means that your friend's blog with an item a month will not be drowned out by higher volume sites such as the New York Times because we'll raise it to the top."
I played with Google Reader briefly, but wasn't terribly impressed. It has some neat features, and probably more than I've found, but Thunderbird works okay for me. I guess I couldn't read blogs from another machine, but I wouldn't do that anyway.
What are the cool features of Google Reader that I may be missing?
Re: Megablogs, I'm in the same situation with news sources that I track through RSS feeds. If you look at my list of RSS feeds, you'll see hundreds of unread posts. I generally scan and read what is interesting. I have Thunderbird set to only download X amount of messages, so it doesn't store too much information there.
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