Cutting the Fat from RSS Feeds

I stopped checking my feeds for a few weeks in Google Reader. Waiting for me was over 10,000 articles to read when I logged on this morning. Instead of reading them, I deleted them all. Sometimes a fresh start is better than catching up.

Next, I went to my podcasts and started deleting my subscriptions. I'm trying to get it under 10 a day. It's nice to have one or two podcasts recap the news so that I know how to pronounce words (such as foreign leaders and such). The rest are mostly motivational or geared toward giving me business ideas. I think 10 is a good number to aim for.

I'm also cutting my twitter tweets I receive (a process which is taking a lot of time). Deleting a lot spam can be a good way to increase the effectiveness of having twitter. The thing I like about twitter is you can find out news hours before the media picks up the issue. Plus it's a nice way to discover some interesting articles or feature I might have missed on Digg or Mahalo. Both of these advantages become more apparent when there is less distraction from junk I'm not interested in.

Basically, I want to cut back on how much I digest (in information) so that the information is more manageable and more focused on the strength of each platform.

Cutting the fat is healthy.