It took a lot to say that, but I’m a big man and I do this for a living, and I have to agree:
I know I keep going on about this… but I have no time to read feeds or blog anymore. Work has en[c]roached too far. Tonight I sat down to catch up on 3,000 unread feeds and realised the feeds aren’t going to make blog. I just need to start doing it again and godamnwell make time for it all. Godamnit again… I’m to turn my Twitter notifications on again as well and get social good and proper.
I’m also going to find a prettier template for this site. I’m a lush, not a monk - I ought to find something that suits..
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That’s not necessarily bad. Depends how you manage your feeds. I have 441 feeds, 45,000 unread articles, but am on top of it. It’s all there when I need it.
I’ll have to re-publish my feed reading habits…
@Ian D - Well…. it’s worked! Thanks for sorting out the typos too
@Drew - I feel better now!
I deleted about half of my RSS feeds on Google reader today, it was very cathartic. I think what we all need is an e-butler to tell unwanted emailers and spammers to f*** off, and to tell any sales people to go to the tradesmens entrance where they belong
marcus
glad it’s not just me then…spent this evening getting back in control of emails and RSS - will just have to start writing again sometime soon…
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