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Do you clean your rss feeds?

On Thursday, I asked you to suggest new blogs for me to read in 2010. Of course, adding new always makes me think of cleaning old. Which led me to thinking about cleaning out old posts from my rss reader (which I hadn’t done in months!) Before I started my business, when I had actual time at the end of the a month, I would go through all my feeds and clean house. I didn’t delete any until then, since going back through them a second time will sometimes trigger blog posts (like a guitar center branding strategy?) and I would hate to have deleted the content and tried to find it again.

Now that the end of the month is a little crazy, I have slacked on cleaning out feeds…so I decided to play catch up and clean them out, starting my year fresh. While I was doing that, I stumbled across 4 posts I had bookmarked to share, and never did…

Steve Woodruff talks about “Plodding” (I promise, it is nowhere as weird as it sounds)

Jon Buscall tells us why girls rule (blogging that is!)

Brad Marley talks Tiger PR (c’mon, I had to include at least one thing Tiger!)

Ari doesn’t think lots of followers is a reason to follow Copyblogger (I don’t either)

And that is exactly why I need to stay on top of cleaning! Had I been checking the feeds, clearing out old posts, and looking for gems,  I would have shared these sooner (like when they came out!). But, you’ll just have to settle with seeing them now…

When you read a post from your rss feeds, what do you do with it? Save it? Delete it? Save some, delete others? How often? What reason do you have for keeping them?

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  • http://ariwriter.com Ari Herzog

    Lately, 80% of every RSS item I read or comment I mark as read at http://twitter.com/ariherzogonline. That’s more for my memory than for sharing, the latter which I’m now doing with a weekly Saturday roundup blog post.

    I digg or stumble once in a blue moon.

    I mark feeds read frequently. If days go by and I don’t read anything, I mark them read without reading.
    .-= Ari Herzog´s last blog ..Showcase Sunday: From Felicia Day to a Goat =-.

  • http://angryjuliemonday.com Angry Julie Monday

    I totally am cleaning house! I am also prioritizing and saving the good ones for later. I’m also making more of an effort to stumble.

    P.S. Did you check out my WordPress fabulousness?
    .-= Angry Julie Monday´s last blog ..Monster Jam is coming to Orange County =-.

    • http://www.wrightcreativity.com Kirsten Wright

      Julie – I hope house cleaning is going well :) I did see the new site – looks great!!!

  • http://www.jonbuscall.com Jon Buscall

    I regularly weed out my feed subscriptions. My rule of thumb is to can anything that I haven’t looked at in two weeks.

    As for articles themselves, in Netnewswire (my Mac feeder of choice!) I just skim all the headlines. I read what I want to read and then mark as read all the stuff I’ve ignored.

    My biggest fear is missing something important so I tend to have too many feeds on the go.

    I recently reorganised to categories (as opposed to A list Must-Reads, B list, etc) and I’m just seeing how it goes. At present I’m sinking under information overload.
    .-= Jon Buscall´s last blog ..English Communication Training in Copenhagen =-.

    • http://ariwriter.com Ari Herzog

      Did I read that right, Jon? Any blogger whose post you haven't read in two weeks is unsubscribed?

      I just went through my RSS feeds yesterday and scrapped everything, starting fresh.

  • http://twitter.com/alexjvasquez alexjvasquez

    RT @kirstenwrightkirstenwright: Do you clean your rss feeds? – http://tinyurl.com/yd3l8l7

    This comment was originally posted on Twitter

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