David Blume"Why Keeping up with RSS is poisonous--" pissed me off. The fact that this woman doesn't have the discipline to cull her list of feeds, and doesn't have the discipline to only check her reader when she has the allocated time for it doesn't mean that "RSS is poisonous to productivity."
Take a little accountability for your own actions, Buddy. For example: I like TechCrunch, but over half of it is worthless to me. So I had a program cull the TechCrunch feed into another feed that's a much smaller list of articles based on attributes that matter to me (keywords, author, retweets, etc.) (The culled feed can be found here: http://techcrunch.dlma.com/ ) Problem solved. When TechCrunch goes completely worthless, I'll stop following it altogether.
She's upset with "RSS" because the feeds she's selected are redundant with tweets from those she follows at Twitter‽ No problem - remove the redundant feeds, or unfollow certain people. Exercise some discipline, woman.
Take a little accountability for your own actions, Buddy. For example: I like TechCrunch, but over half of it is worthless to me. So I had a program cull the TechCrunch feed into another feed that's a much smaller list of articles based on attributes that matter to me (keywords, author, retweets, etc.) (The culled feed can be found here: http://techcrunch.dlma.com/ ) Problem solved. When TechCrunch goes completely worthless, I'll stop following it altogether.
She's upset with "RSS" because the feeds she's selected are redundant with tweets from those she follows at Twitter‽ No problem - remove the redundant feeds, or unfollow certain people. Exercise some discipline, woman.
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You're completely right, though. RSS is easy to overdo, and requires discipline, but that responsibility is on the user.
http://www.marco.org/2011/09/04/sane-rss-usage