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Valleywag
An online publishing veteran who goes by the name of Halsted has stopped drinking from the RSS firehose. She says she's not missing her feed reader's unread items folder:
Nothing has changed. I spend my time writing, reading, and puzzle-solving instead, and my stress levels are markedly down. Now I am absolutely convinced that I need to ditch my RSS reader permanently, and only read a handful of feeds on a start page like iGoogle or Netvibes.As a journalist, it's my duty to call three friends for quotes to support my article about the "Slow Web" movement now. I expect some blogger will get a book deal for the inevitable manifesto. (Photo by Jef Poskanzer)
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"Read slow. Not so much. Mostly static."
Maybe she should subscribe to the 'bag over the head' feed.
@klugman: That's pretty funny, since at first glance I thought "black swan" (oooh, how mystically imaginative) was a former fianceé of mine.
But she's not.
Stopped reading feeds, while simultaneously encouraging everyone to feed their blogs into twiter. Aka continued reading feeds.
I did that a few months ago. It's a much simpler way to keep up on things I want to keep up on, just with a more relaxed way of going about it. Plus, it's available anywhere when it's a web-based reader like Google Reader/iGoogle instead of a local app on a non-traveling machine. Good advice :).
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