Ryan Block
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How do you read your feeds?

Monday, October 29th, 2007 - 2:41PM

Yeah, you could say I regularly work hours that many would call, well, kind of crazy — and when I’m not working I tend to stay fairly busy with something or another. But if there’s one thing I can’t seem to get ahead and stay ahead of most days, it’s my feeds. I have about 90-100 feeds in my NetNewsWire (maybe 30 of those are high throughput sources), and it still seems like there’s often simply too much content to mesh with the level of time I have to get a handle on it (thus resulting in a the frequent and unfortunate use of mark all as read, and a gradually shrinking OPML). Naturally, the irony isn’t lost on me; trust me, Engadget readers experiencing news overload have my complete sympathy. It’s not like Engadget doesn’t rack up more unread articles in my aggregator than almost any other publication I subscribe to, too (save linkregators like Reddit and Digg).

Right now I think Scoble reigns as champ of the feed-obsessed — seriously, have you seen the dude’s OPML?. He uses “impressions” (glances at stories, not deep reading), but I’m definitely curious to know what aggregators people live in, and how other heavy individual feed reading individuals get their intake without missing any of the good stuff and without scheduling their lives around RSS.