Blog overload -- and a solution?
I sometimes feel this too. David Weinberger:
...we're now well past the point where we can keep up with all the blogs worth reading from the people worth keeping up with.More than anything else, this is a major challenge for anyone involved in the news aggregator/RSS-reader business. A simple tree structure of folders isn't enough. You need to help us more.
I just can't do it any more.
I've been faking it for a while. Months. Maybe a year. If we've met and I look confused about something you told me, and if you said, 'I blogged it,' as if that should be explanation enough, I've made some excuse as if I read every one of your posts except that one.
The truth is, I probably haven't read your blog in weeks. Months maybe.
And I don't expect you to have read mine. [via]
Here's one idea. Let me prioritize the feeds I subscribe too.
- The very few I want to read everything from you will present to me in full-text at the top of a web page (and you'll let me decide how many items from each feed).
- Level 2 are shown below them with the start of the text.
- Level 3 are at the bottom of the page, headlines only.
- Level 4 I want to find in a sidebar, that's where I'll put the more than 75 % I only want to keep an occasional eye on.
- Level 5 -- in my case search subscriptions -- you'll publish for me at a sub-page, and on the main page it'll be fine if you just tell me how many new posts there are on the sub-page.
- Level 6, or rather content type 6, is an area where I'll put all my new subscriptions for a while, to be able to decide how they should be prioritized. One more sidebar, perhaps?
I want to be editor-in-chief of my RSS experience!