Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers

Thankyou. I really needed this. I’ve been trying to come to terms with the fact that there isn’t enough time in the day to be on top of EVERYTHING online, all the time.

I find myself trying to read all my feeds so I can be ‘up to date’ on all the tech happenings, so I can be more productive.. except I use all of my productivity time reading feeds.

I forgot to add something. Be careful with del.icio.us feeds, and similar things. I had del.icio.us, del.icio.us/popular, and my del.icio.us inbox feeds on my RSS reader. Instead of helping me find good links, it simply overwhelmed me. Everytime I logged in (and I was logging in every hour or two), I’d have 600 or so items between the del.icio.us feeds.

The site just moves too fast.

Great Post! “overblogification” is fast beating email as something that gobbles up the day.

That said, what do you suggest as a way to follow topics you are interested in (GTD, Project Management) in the blogosphere in a manageable way?

None of us would have these problems if D. Keith Robinson didn’t have so many Blogs!

Seriously though, good tips, I’ve had a bit of a struggle with this since Thunderbird came out and I started reading most of my favorite blogs as feeds. I think an additional tip if you’re going to read a whole bunch of feeds: Don’t do what I do. Don’t integrate feeds with your email.

Having a dedicated program for feeds might be one more RAM commitment on your part, but having unread feeds glaring at you from your email box is a difficult proposition when it comes to sorting through stuff (and I do mean “stuff” in the David Allen sense; feeds have great info but they’re “stuff” until you have a chance to really read them rather than browse, just like you said). It sounds like a great idea to have everything there in one spot, but the types of information coming into your mailbox and your feed reader are unlikely to be related.

Great stuff, I’m envious of your multi-blog superpowers.

There’s an easier solution: don’t read blogs any more. Well, certainly not as any kind of duty. Never subscribed to feeds, seems like a way to deal with an addiction instead of just not having an addiction. Also, stop reading comments. They rarely have anything to say.

For instance, I don’t have your site bookmarked. I don’t think it’s interesting enough to visit often. Not having a bookmark makes you forget a site exists. This is an immense time saver. So how do I come here? Well I see a link to your site on some other site I look at and think, I haven’t looked at that for a while, I’ll have a look if there’s anything interesting. I do this with many sites. Forgetting sites exist is a great streamliner. I rarely have more than ten blog bookmarks. If they grow, I prune. Ruthlessly.

One day I will stop using the web just to idle away time and only use it for finding information. But that’s a counsel of perfection. Seems I actually like to waste and idle time every so often. Just try not to do it too often. I’m aware of the problem, but I’m far more ruthless than you seem to be. I don’t see any point regarding blog reading as akin to getting through your email inbox. The more activities we define as chores by the way we respond to them the less pleasure we’ll get from any of them. Wouldn’t you agree?

I am very new to RSS feeds. For all that I have yet to learn about blogs and feeds, after reading this post I am very glad that I am using My Yahoo! for my RSS feeds — and NOT some Outlook add-in or dedicated software.

Recently I have spent a decent amount of time checking my feeds and finding new, worthwhile ones, most of them work-related. But I have managed to reduce the amount of time I spend on this quite a bit. And I haven’t hesitated to cancel a few feeds here and there. I suppose this means that I’m beginning to value my time more and more.

While I know I must be missing something by not exploring alternative methods, I am very content for now to keep using My Yahoo! to keep up on things.

I’m in agreement with you here. Though I take a more hardline approach. I have a few different categories set up for what I should be reading (events, music, web design) and an ‘other’ folder, which has subfolders of specific categories. I keep the ‘other’ folder closed when I need to focus on work. When I want to relax and read about things that don’t count as ‘work’ I open it up. I find this gets rid of the temptation of being totally distracted.

I also run a separate program, Liferea, so that it’s not tempting to check it all the time. It’s my favorite of linux apps because it has categorization, and it can ‘open in new tab’ in firefox.

A program that reports and highlights changes on webpages is essential for this; far beats any rss reader for keeping up with blogs, imho:

Good review of the best of these tools:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/WebWatchers/index.html

USe Onfolio 2.0. It costs money but it does a great job of tracking feeds and integrating them into a personal database on whatever it is you are researching. If you want to keep and then be able to find again the info you get from the web you ought to use Onfolio. Only the 2.o does all this.

Wow, great minds think alike! I had many similar thoughts in June when I wrote up I might be keeping up with your blog. My entry was written specifically in response to a post by David Weinberger, but contains a lot of useful blog-reading tips. It’s written from the point of view of a Bloglines user, but could apply to any sort of blog reading client.

Oops. The link in my last comment should be this… I left the ‘l’ off of the end. I’ve since written a mod_rewrite rule to handle mistaken urls, but just for posterity, there you go.

it seems like you already have (and went against his thinking) but if you haven’t, you should read Data Smog by David Shenk.

I really agree with Moses. I used to catch up with about 30 blogs a day, plus LiveJournal, and at least two forums. I’d wonder why I’d get home and suddenly have no time left at the end of the night. Over a few months I ditched all of them, even those blogs I’d been following for years, it was just too much of a chore to keep up to date.

Now, provided I have R&D time available at work, I give myself Friday mornings to catch up on feeds related directly to my work, and at home I have only a few news feeds which I can get through in an hour on a Saturday. It all feels like much less of a chore now, and I don’t actually miss any of the content I chose to stop reading. I like the fact that now I’m ‘doing’ a lot more than I am ‘reading’ :)

Taken these very productive tips. Thanks.

>

Excellent overall tips! Thank for this post, this is what I’ve needed. One of the best tips you’ve given is to slow down and actually read instead of continuously browse. I feel as though I’m being more productive when I speed through these blogs, but you are right, we must actually read the most important ones.

Great tips!

Good afternoon and happiness to You!
Many people to help to destroy the SOVIET UNION,who will help this family
today!
For each comes the moment in the life, when it is necessary to lengthen the
hand of aid,if you desire to itself good.
We has already been turned in charities organizations. They threw out our
rotation. We request you by name God- help them.
This is a letter from a group of college students from Omsk, Siberia. We
have formed this team in pursuit of one common goal charitable fundraising
to help Maria Komeliagina, a very sick girl who needs urgent medical
attention.
Both her parents are handicapped and hardly able to be of any financial
assistance.
The Bible says, Give to Those Asking. Instead, many prefer to deprive those
who ask of their last bits. The Bible also says that even dogs sometimes
get leftovers from their master s table. Now, we are asking you: is this
sick girl inferior to dogs? Does she deserve to die an excruciating death
because of her illness? We have been trying to raise funds for this
desolate family for 3 years, and often encountered manifestations of the
world s cruelty, human cold-heartedness and indifference toward someone
else’s distress. However, we also met good and charitable people who sent
their sympathetic replies to our letters. Those people sent Maria their
love in words, food, vitamins, some clothes, and toys. Some of them sent
money, too.
If you are able to provide Maria and her parents ANY assistance at all,
please do not hesitate to do so. Anything will do, even if you just advise
us of an organization that really helps unfortunate people like this poor
family.
The amount that this family needs is huge, it totals to $16,000. We are
Fully aware of the enormity of this amount and of the fact that very few people
Are ready to give it to a sick child if the child is not their own. But, if
mercy and grace are still alive in your heart, please help them with
whatever you can. If you have an opportunity, any information about this
family published in the Internet would help, too (please see the webpage
at:
http://www.komelagina.narod.ru/
It can also be any money, or medicine, or food, or old toys, or second-hand
clothes (they will make it over for Maria). They would greatly appreciate
any assistance.
We hope you will extend your sympathy to this family and their daughter.
Their address is:
Leonid Ivanovich Komeliagin.
y. 20 n/c – 51A, k-24
Omsk-53,
644053.
Russia.
Telephone: +7(3812) 67 39 07
Speak only Russian.

Donations accounts:
For: SBERBANK Zapadno-Sibirsky head office, Omsk, Branch 8634/0195
Account wich institution: SWIFT: SABRRUMMTN1
Account number:42 307 840 6 4500 0334041
Name: Komeliagin Leonid Ivanovich.
Details of payments: Donations for Medical Treatment.

Or WESTERN UNION
For Komeliagin Leonid Ivanovich.
y. 20 n/c – 51A, k-24
Omsk-53,
644053.
Russia.
And report number transfer, Your name, amount and country us in e-mail:
leonkom@pisem.net
lemk@rambler.ru
leonkom@mail.ru
lemk@mail.ru

Sincerely-Evgeny Filippov, Student Team member.
May God bless you for your kindness and grace!
Passing by the grief of others, you will stumble against its.
He will place the sheep at his right hand and the goats at his left.
Then the King will say to those on the right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by
my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world.
For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I
was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you
gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and
you visited me.’
“Then these righteous ones will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you
hungry and feed you? Or thirsty and give you something to drink?
Or a stranger and show you hospitality? Or naked and give you clothing?
When did we ever see you sick or in prison, and visit you?’
And the King will tell them, ‘I assure you, when you did it to one of the
least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’
“Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you
cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his demons!
For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t
give me anything to drink.
I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and
you gave me no clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit
me.’
“Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or
a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’
And he will answer, ‘I assure you, when you refused to help the least of
these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go
into eternal life
Matthew 25:33-46

Your information strongly has helped me, thank you for it!

Yes

Smoked brisket – cooking out of town.
Let’s get it started:
Buy brisket (for example the cost of this product in Samara (Russia) is 2,3$/kg )

welcome

http://sony.com

nice info, thx

movistar

no se pierda el interesante caso movistar

movistar

antes de nada siempre hay algo

no se pierda el interesante caso movistar

movistar

antes de nada siempre hay algo

Carta abierta de Alejandro López Fernández con dni número: 32654324-M a
Telefónica Móviles España S.A. (telefonica moviles españa es mas
conocida por todo el mundo como movistar)

“
Queridos hijos de puta:

Acabo de recibir vuestra asquerosa carta de mierda dónde me amenazáis
para que os pague una factura de 1834,56 euros que sabéis que yo nunca
he consumido y que es totalmente injusta, sin embargo a pesar de obrar
las pruebas de lo que digo en vuestro poder, es decir en vuestros
servidores de datos, insistís en que pague, resumen:

SOIS BASURA

Mira que simpática es esta carta:

Muy Sr./a mío/a:

El saldo pendiente en su cuenta con TELEFONICA MOVILES ESPAÑA, S.A.,
correspondiente al número/s de teléfono cuyo detalle se adjunta, asciende
a la cantidad de 1834.56 euros.

Con el fin de evitar el traspaso de su expediente a nuestro
Departamento de Asesoría y de vernos obligados a comunicar su nueva situación al
Servicio de Información Crédito ASNEF/EQUIFAX [esto es una lista de
morosos], del cual somos miembros asociados, le agradeceré que el citado
importe lo haga efectivo en el plazo de quince días a contar desde el
recibo de la presente, de alguna de las siguientes formas:

• Cheque nominativo a Telefonica Moviles España, S.A. enviado por
correo a la dirección: C/ Llodio, nº 4 – 3ª Planta. 28034 – Madrid [Este
cheque se lo pides a tu puta madre y si ella no te lo quiere dar metete
los dos puños por el culo después de arrancarte los dientes hijo de puta]

• Transferencia a los siguientes datos bancarios del banco Santander
Central Hispano (SCH): Entidad 0049, Sucursal 1500, DC 02 y Número de
cuenta 2910384121. [Por supuesto que te voy a hacer una transferencia pero
de todas las hostias que pueda darte como un día te coja por la calle]

En ambos casos es imprescindible comunique el número de abono y
titularidad del mismo.

Para cualquier aclaración, tiene a su disposición nuestro Centro de
Atención al Cliente las 24 horas del día [por los cojones], en los
siguientes teléfonos: 1485 (609 desde su teléfono móvil); en el caso de
empresas, el 1486 (109 desde su teléfono móvil).

Atentamente le saluda.
[Métete tu saludo por el culo pero saca los puños primero]

Miguel Angel García
Gerente de Cobros [o sea el hijo de puta mayor del reino, igual que el
resto de casa de hijos de puta que es movistar]

Bueno bueno bueno

Decir que telefónica es una mierda (o que telefonica es una mierda) no
es algo nuevo, es algo que todos sabíamos, pero se os ha ido la mano y
habéis logrado hincharme las pelotas, más de diez veces he llamado a
vuestros putos números de mierda para intentar arreglar esto por las
buenas y no me habéis hecho puto caso.

como diría Palpatine…

biennnn

biennnnnnnn

biennnnnnnnnnnn

queréis guerra?

pues la vais a tener vais a lamentar el día en el que me conocisteis

tengo mucha paciencia y mucho tiempo (o eso creo) para joderos, hasta
el último puto gato en españa se va a enterar de lo ladrones hijos de
puta que son en movistar, y por cierto ¿que me quereis meter en una lista
de morosos por un puto telefono movil o teléfono móvil? pues me metéis
me suda mucho la polla mi poder no es tan banal como creéis y si no al
tiempo

bueno queridos hijos de puta de movistar empieza el juego nos
encontraremos por el camino, no tendré piedad si algún día me cruzo con vosotros
en la calle os voy a meter una bombona de butano por el culo así que
mejor no os crucéis conmigo

y por cierto, una nota aclaratoria para el presidente de movistar, ¿no
te da vergüenza dirigir una compañía de MIERDA? yo te respondo, claro
que no te la da PORQUE ERES MIERDA

PostData: querido presi de la compañía de mierda, el azar te libre de
que te eche el guante porque te mato a hostias, después de todo lo que
te voy a hacer vas a pedirme llorando que te mate
“

¿Pero de que va todo esto? (Por Traksler) (¿caso movistar? no, no creo)

Bueno yo soy un coleguilla de Alejandro y me ha tocado la ardua tarea
de explicaros a quien le pueda interesar de que coño va todo este
marrón. Me vais a perdonar que firme con pseudónimo pero es que aquí va a
haber tiros y esto a mi ni me va ni me viene. Yo sólo soy el mensajero.

Bien la cosa va de lo siguiente.

Cómo todos o casi todos sabéis Telefónica de España como su propio
nombre indica es una compañía que se dedica a prestar servicios de
telefonía en España. Uno de sus “satélites” es movistar que se dedica a la
telefonía móvil

Pues bien, Alejandro hace un tiempo contrató con movistar un servicio
de conexión a internet a través de teleléfono móvil, es decir lo que
conocemos como “conexión wireless umts”.

Es decir, tu tienes un teléfono móvil normal y corriente (o una tarjeta
modem móvil) y con ese teléfono móvil en vez de hablar lo que haces es
conectarlo a tu ordenador portátil y ya puedes conectarte a internet.

Es una experiencia muy gratificante irte a la playa o a lo alto de un
monte, con tu ordenador portátil y tu teléfono móvil y poder chatear,
mirar tu correo o buscar algo en el google.

Hasta aquí todo correcto pero que pasó?

Lo que pasó es que este tipo de conexiones a internet a través de
teléfonica tienen un riesgo grande, y es que te cobran por la cantidad de
datos que recibes y envías a internet (y no por el tiempo de conexión
como en una ADSL normal).

Es decir, tienes una tarifa plana en la que pagas 59 euros por
transferir a la red hasta un giga de información y a partir de ahí empieza a
cobrarte por kilobyte (y a cobrar mucho por cierto).

Lo que le pasó a Alejandro es que un virus (un gusano, del tipo
SYN_SENT al puerto 445) se coló en su ordenador durante 3 días, y el virus se
puso a enviar información, e información y mucha más información, hasta
que el giga fue rebasado muy ampliamente y duplicado varias veces. De
ahí la monstruosa factura.

Esa factura es indebida. Alejandro no consumió ese ancho de banda. Lo
consumió un virus maligno y no él.

Afortunadamente Alejandro es un doctorando en informática y se dio
cuenta a tiempo y pudo eliminar al agente maligno, pero el daño ya había
sido hecho.

Por otro lado, si Alejandro no fuese informático profesional la factura
podría haber sido de 12.000 euros o más…

Movistar con toda seguridad debió ver en la monitorización de sus
servidores que algo raro estaba ocurriendo porque de gastar 59 euros todos
los meses, el consumo se disparó sin justificación un 3000 por ciento,
pero Movistar se quedó calladita como las putas dejando que la factura
siguiese engordando.

Alejandro no fue informado en ningún momento de que LA LEY OBLIGA a que
exista la posibilidad de que si tu factura en euros pasa de cierta
cantidad se pare el servicio para que no siga aumentando el gasto (lo que
se conoce como LIMITE DE CONSUMO). Aparecía por la parte de atrás del
contrato en letra microscópica de esa que no se puede leer sin un buen
par de gafas graduadas. Ni Movistar ni sus esbirros informaron
explícitamente y con transparencia de esto a Alejandro, Movistar se quedó callada
como las putas.

Alejandro se prestó a entregar los logs (archivos dónde se guardan
datos de lo que ha pasado dentro de un ordenador) donde se probaba
fehacientemente la actividad de un virus (corroborable mediante prueba cruzada
con los distintos servidores) en las horas indicadas de “supuesto
consumo” pero nadie lo quiso ver, simplemente no le hicieron caso. Sólo le
dijeron que pagase: como las putas. Eso es lo que te dice una puta:
“paga y no me cuentes tu vida”.

Que sí, que yo también estoy de acuerdo, movistar sois una casa de
putas.

PostData: Vodafone no es mejor, también son unos chapuceros, ellos y
sus telefonistas “sudamericanos” (por qué será?); pero dentro de lo
chapuzas que son no son tan odiosos como estos otros y en algunas cosas
funcionan cien mil veces mejor.

caso movistar

I like your site.
Blogs with comments windows that you have to click to open keep the dialogue under wraps. Blogs like this one which string comments out in the open are much more proactive about sparking dialogue.

Pretty site you have. Good job. Thank you for this excellent idea.

Download Freeware and Shareware Software

I think, that is necessary such sites more.

Your information strongly has helped me, thank you for it!

[URL=http://www.nastolatki-galerie-fotomodelki.1.lolek.pl]nastolatki galerie fotomodelki[/URL] | kurwa lechtaczka oralniehttp://www.nowe-pozuje-fetysz.1.lolek.pl | |

General resource site for the captive insurance industry. Offerings include articles, news, links, and case studies: http://www.captive.50megs.com

我只是条忘了前世的鱼([url=http://www.3456789.cn]wow gold[/url]),说好了今生在那片海边等待([url=http://www.v815.net]wow gold[/url]),却忘了你的样子和相约的日子(wow gold)。于是，天天，天天，天天的坐在那里(wow gold)，坐愁日落。

GreenWood

“Yes” ???

Latest news about sport, entertainment, business, culture etc.

Diabetes free glucometer. How is Diabetes diagnosed. Use of blood glucometer.
http://www.allthingsfree.netfirms.com – site for sick diabetes
free blood glucometer

[url=http://www.honey-moom.com.cn/jianjie.htm]珠宝[/url]
[url=http://www.tyfohq.com/zhouyi.htm]周易[/url]

感谢版主支持,推荐几个网站
[url=http://www.wing173.com/jianzan.html]成都网站建设[/url]
[url=http://www.tyfohq.com]周易预测[/url]
[url=http://www.west2008.com/google.htm]成都google排名[/url]
[url=http://www.find018.com]成都交友[/url]
[url=http://www.west2008.com/google.htm]google左侧排名[/url]

Those informations are quite influential then the comments which are on being here.