Drinking from the Fire Hose

[afuna]

Hm, ever since NetNewsWire discontinued their online syncing service, I've stopped reading feeds. I'm actually kinda glad it happened, because I had been wanting to cut myself off, cut down the number of things I obsessively refresh, but felt unable to do it on my own (what if I miss something important??).

Anyway, I've spent the past few months cut off from my feed reader. But I haven't been feed-less: I've been adding new interesting feeds to my reading page on Dreamwidth, and I've hit a good compromise -- I have to balance them with the amount of personal entries on my reading page, so I don't subscribe to the high-volume ones that I would only be skimming *anyway*.

So I've been ramping up slowly, and I'm finally feeling up to setting up feed reading again; maybe I'll try exporting my old feed list from NetNewsWire to Google Reader and promise myself that I'll only read them when I'm bored (ahahha).

*or* maybe I'll keep up my feed-abstinence, force myself to produce something when I'm bored instead of happily consuming what everyone else is producing. Hmmmm. (Maybe there is such a thing as being too happy :-))

Comments

[oona]

Have you ever used Bloglines?

[afuna]

No, what is it? Is it a web feed reader service?

[oona]

Yes, and I have used it for years after trying many different ones and different kinds. I love it. http://www.bloglines.com

[murklins]

I've always been afraid to move my feeds off of LJ/DW and into a dedicated reader, for so many reasons. I like the little bit of effort it takes to read a feed in DW, having to find or create it first; that's a natural curtail of potential feed addiction. Plus, I keep a pretty tight hold on my DW circle, so before I add a feed I think about it a long time, like I would before adding a personal journal or a comm. And because a lot of my feeds are not really easy reading (lots of anti-opression blogs) it's nice to have them mixed in with stuff that doesn't fill me with rage/sadness, but then when I get really busy in RL I can choose to view only personal journals so that I can keep up with the people I care about and skip the feeds for a while. (But since they are always part of my reading list by default, I never entirely fall out of the habit of reading them, which is a bit of a danger for me -- I used to read Twitter, but then I switched browser versions, didn't install the Twitter extension, and never went back.)

So, uh, that's my feed reading logic.

[afuna]

(I like your feed reading logic. That may be because it dovetails with mine at many points :x)