Weeding, or are you just moody?
A period in which I have had 16 days of visitors is just over and I returned to find Bloglines awash with things I hadn’t yet seen. Now Bloglines feeds me much, much more than just blogs, so this is nothing to do with the quality of blogs that were on my list, but really folks, there were well over 1000 entries unread.
I started to go through them one by one. But some I never clicked on. After a few days I started to wonder why I didn’t open those lists and therefore see new things the next time I logged in. Was I just over them? Were they sites I’d added because there was a lot of buzz about them and I had to see what that was about? Or was it the 200 entries showing, which is the maximum Bloglines will show?
God knows I am moody these days. I came back to ugly weather, shorter days and cold winds. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t even drink. I didn’t feel like going out, but the cats needed food so I was forced to shop.
Now it’s been a week and there are feeds still unopened. I know what will be there. If I know what will be there, why look? I’d weeded a while back and removed everything I decided wasn’t creative enough. I weeded again, and found that I missed some of the sources, so I added them back. This time, however, I am really not at all sure it isn’t me. Yes, there are certain feeds that rarely tempt me to click through to the site itself, but then, when I do, wow. Others represent a saga I want to follow to the end. Some I find teach me things I won’t otherwise learn. (I should find some photography blogs.) News headlines of course I need. It’s inexcusable to remain ignorant in our world today.
But the rest? Why are they left unopened?
What I need are suggestions of pages or blogs with feeds that will rev up my engines. Please provide.
3 comments October 26th, 2007
