RSS feeds are fantastic. There are so many people out there that have interesting things to say and who I can learn from. I have set up my reader (I use Google reader because I find it easy and I can access it from one of many PC’s that I use as well as from my phone) to bring in feeds from blogs, twitter searches, google searches and things that my “friends” have Dugg. I use the reader to gather information from my clients, from my clients markets, from the social media and PR world as well as for things that amuse and entertain me.
The problem is one of overload. I have been a little busy of late and have also been travelling on business. In all I have probably not made a conscious effort to read my feeds for a week or more. Now I have 357 items to look at. I need to make a choice now. Do I just go through and mark all as read or do I skim read them, star those that I want to go back to and mark the rest as read. This could take two or three hours.
Information, both a curse and a blessing.
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