I ebb and flow when it comes to RSS. Oh sure it’s great in a lot of ways, but I also found that because I can keep up with a zillion websites that I do… and it becomes a huge time sink out of my day. Addicted to information, I guess.

So I’ll use RSS, then go away for a while, then come back, then go away… and now I’m thinking about coming back again for my daily “catch up on everything I care about” -fare.  So as I plod my way through NetNewsWire I see how many feeds I need to manually massage to get back on track. I notice that just about every Blogspot-based blog needs a manual re-subscription to get things back on track. WordPress.com-hosted and sites hosted by individuals seem to still be working just fine.

Another reason I’m happy I avoided Blogspot. 🙂

The interesting thing? Most of the sites of true merit I checked manually anyways. As I sift through most of the other blogs and news sites I subscribe to… gosh… if there isn’t just a lot of noise to sort through. Much use of the “Mark Everything as Read” command.

Of course, my little blog here contributes to the mess…. be it signal or be it noise, you can decide for yourself.