Arieanna's section on the latest bit from our survey—Qumana Blog -- The use of RSS - Blog Survey Results—got me to thinking about my own adventures with RSS.  Like most folks I started slowly.  Though being an info junkie I jumped pretty fast into the double and triple digits.  But, like Arieanna, my feed list didn't really explode until I became a pro blogger.  Hmm.  And now that I am, I find that I'm so busy with other things, I barely read a quarter of my feed list.  Many days I don't even make it though my "Must read list".  So this begs the question, since we're already info-overloaded, when is enough, enough?

 

I certainly have hit the wall.  I don't feel guilty that I'm not reading.  I do feel bad if I miss a friend's great post.  The question you might ask, then, is "are you going to cull your feeds?"  No.  Huh?  Right, see one of the tricks to getting great ideas is having lots of "blog fodder".  So I use meta searches on topics I'm interested in, say "metrics" or "pharma marketing".  So, the more potential sources that I have to draw from, then better.  Same goes for when there is a hot topic going around.  The most recent was eBay and Skype.  I quick meta search (and saved for later) and I kept up on the buzz and I can catch up with the same search.  Being a good pro blogger is part writing skills, part gisting skills, and part having great sources.

 

Given that, I'll keep adding feeds to my list.  I'll keep trying to read.  Maybe a new reader will come out to help.  Until then ... well, you know.

 

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