The Purge.
Every once in a while you get the urge to purge. In my case, I finally did a “select all” then “delete” in my RSS reader. It’s one of those good feelings to see “0 new items” and know you don’t feel behind, despite not knowing everything in the tech universe. Now, I’m rebuilding the list feed by feed, and I figure if I stay organized and concise, the RSS overwhelm overload won’t happen.
Unlike J, I didn’t delete Engadget. J sez he feels overwhelmed by their greatness and sheer amount of posts. To me, it’s obvious that Engadget readers feel like the more posts the merrier, but what about video shows? Should I limit Tech Check Daily to a hard limit of posts (assuming I work out all the problems i’ve been having and get around to posting more than one story a day anyway) or should I just post as many as possible and then create a roundup show?
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Jake on April 27th, 2007
Hmmm, good questions. As a content consumer, my personal RSS preferences fall into 2 categories. There are feeds where I want to read every item (my friends’ blogs, columnists who post every few days, Flickr comments and Contacts photos), and others (mostly news feeds) that I just like to skim the headlines occassionally and maybe dive in if something looks interesting. The former category are the ones I’m tracking with Google Reader, and the others I have on my Yahoo! portal, where I can stop by and browse if I feel like it, but it doesn’t add hundreds of “Unreads” to my feed reader.
Having never been a content provider, aside from blogging for fun and posting photos to Flickr for sharing, I haven’t really thought about what you are asking. It seems like if its not too much trouble to just post the news you find interesting, and then do the video show of what you think is most note-worthy, you could offer more options to your consumers, and then offer a couple different feeds.
Conrad on April 27th, 2007
I have the same habits as Jake.
I have a tonne of smaller feeds where I read every article (usually because they don’t post very often) and a bunch of bigger sources with dozens of posts a day that I just skim.
Most of the time I end up just browsing the html side of big sites. I certainly used to do that with Engadget before I started working there (I have to read every article now, though!)