I deleted a bunch of subscriptions from my reader account last week, hopefully it will greatly reduce time waste on useless news that’s not related to my work or main interests. When I first set up my account I would go through every single title for about 60 RSS feeds… there could be thousands of them, but I felt a light OCD to mark them all as read and then I would be done for the day. That lasted about a week, until I remembered that the web is an endless ocean of information that’s better accessed through focused search rather than trying to be constantly up to date with everything.
So now the feeds I have left are those from my friends’ blogs, a few blogs like Mark Cuban and Umair Haque, industry news for work, some manga releases, a few sites with asian news, a small selection of new technology blogs, and some art or design blogs for rapid-fire visual stimulation (I like to scroll constantly through 1000 pictures at once, ~1/4 second each, stopping if something catches my eye). Finally I have a few video feeds like HNNcast, The Daily Show, and TED.
