Doodlen » News aggregators http://doodlen.com Where Technology, Business and Society Intersect Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:43:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 gReader Care and Feedinghttp://doodlen.com/2009/02/21/greader-care-and-feeding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=greader-care-and-feeding http://doodlen.com/2009/02/21/greader-care-and-feeding/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:21:03 +0000 jus http://doodlen.com/?p=74 Continue reading →]]> I am a big fan of the Google Feed Reader.  I continue to fine tune how I use the tool as I learn more about it.

For example, The Trends page lists how I consume feeds – and how I do not.  The smart feed reader should include this page in their weekly review.  You can keep yourself productive by following these simple steps:

1.  Unsubscribe from feeds that have not been updated in x months.  I am settling on nine months.  After that point, it’s safe to say the author has moved on.

2.  Unsubscribe from feeds I can’t keep up with.  The New York Times is a fire hose that I can not keep up with.  There are many news outlets that can filter that to the news items I value and I should focus my attention there.

3.  Investigate the obscure.  This is the real long tail.  If I want to present a unique perspective on the world then I should find the niche no one else serves (or subscribes to).

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