Greg Hartnett

I love RSS. I think it is the greatest thing that has happened to the Internet since broadband. The ability to hand pick which information I want to receive in my reader is empowering, and in theory should increase efficiency. In practice, I find myself pouring through countless accounts of the same stories.

Perhaps it is due in part to the the fact that I read a lot of blogs - more than the average online user, to be sure. Probably more than most power users. I find that during my work editing the blog directory I stumble across a fair amount of stuff that interests me, leading me to subscribe to a number of feeds. Unfortunately, too much of the 482 unread posts in my NetNewsWire are talking about the same thing. And I have blogs from a wide variety of industries and topics, typically no more than a handful from the same industry. SEO blogs would be the exception to that rule, where I have always felt that the more informatrion I could get, the better.

Now I find myself in the predicament of once again having too much information to pour through on a daily basis. Worse yet, much of that information is repetitious. So, I have decided to purge my reader of the unnecessary noise. The bloggers who don’t say anything unique. Or only say something unique so infrequently that they lose me. You know what? When Matt Cutts has something to say, you don’t need to talk about it. I read his damn blog too. We all do. Or if he says something big enough, you know that threadwatch will have it - or SEW blog. So that’s it - I don’t need to hear it from you too.