It took me a while to finally admit it, but I have finally come to the realization…. there are way too many items in my RSS feed readers to even try to review half. It is a semi-case of filter failure and not being able to keep up (something I think we all experience). Let me explain…
I have two RSS readers: work and home. I review all of the journal table of contents at work along with some other relevant items. Then I have my home/personal reader with library related items and other feeds. The items in both readers were chosen carefully albeit in the fantansy dream world where a solo can keep up with approximately 2,000+/- feeds and still manage everything else.
Yes I was delusional when I set up this amount of feeds. I know others review this many or more but it has become too much for me with my current workload.
I declared bankruptcy on my home/personal reader and weeded the feeds, but now I have reached a dilemma. I cannot bring myself to wipe thousands of feeds on my work reader. Nor can I weed the feeds. I use these feeds to create and send literature alerts. If I wipe all of these feeds wouldn’t that be like letting my patrons down?
So I am going to buckle down and try to catch up before the end of the year. Otherwise I will just have to face facts that I cannot and will not catch up.
Comments on: "Declaring Information Bankruptcy" (1)
I’ve just recently paired down my Google Reader feeds to ~15 (from about 3x that). I find I am more often reading and deriving greater enjoyment from what’s left.