http://louisgray.disqus.com/A Silicon Valley Blog for Early Adopters and Tech GeeksenTue, 01 May 2007 02:22:00 -0000http://blog.louisgray.com/2007/04/how-much-rss-is-too-much-rss.html#comment-429218001<p>There are a few blogs that let you have custom author or topic feeds, but there are way too few.<br><br>The biggest blog that doesn't do this is The Huffington Post. There are maybe one or two writers there I am interested in, but ten times that many writers I cannot stand. Their only option: "Raw Feed". <br><br>No, I don't think so.</p>David MoisanTue, 01 May 2007 02:22:00 -0000http://blog.louisgray.com/2007/04/how-much-rss-is-too-much-rss.html#comment-429218003<p>Well, the beauty of RSS subscriptions (as opposed to newspaper or magazine) is that you don't have to pay. If you fall behind on your Engadget reading, you're not losing any money by marking all of the posts from the last week as read and starting over.<br><br>There's been talk going around lately about "email bankruptcy," and the practice of letting your contacts know that there's a chance you may not have read their latest emails but that you'll have to delete them all and start from scratch. With RSS feeds, you don't owe anyone an apology. You can just start over any time you like.<br><br>According to my Google Reader trends, I "read" over 1000 items a day. But often I'm just scrolling through news from sites like Engadget reading the headlines or looking at the pictures. When one grabs my attention, I stop and read the article. And then there are other feeds that I don't even check on most days. When I have some spare time, I read those feeds. And if I don't get to them for a few weeks, I often mark the old posts as read just to move past them.</p>Brad LinderMon, 30 Apr 2007 02:42:00 -0000