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Last Updated: Aug 07, 2008 03:29 PM
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Friday - May 25, 2007 at 09:17 AM inTime to cut backI realized recently that I'm spending too much
time reading newsfeeds and blogs. RSS makes it so easy, you see.
So I'm cutting back. If you look at a
Harvard-MBA 4-quadrant diagram with frequency of posting on one axis, and
value-add on the other axis, my main targets are the very frequent, low value
newsfeeds.
In my view, that's just about every mainstream media newsfeed--not because the quality of the reporting is low, but because so much "news" is repetitive or irrelevant to me. Even The Wall Street Journal gets the axe here. I still read the Journal online, I just won't be subscribing to the news feed of every single freakin' article. I'm also unsubscribing from many of the largest political blogs: Instapundit and Daily Kos go in the dustbin because there's just not enough value add there (Instapundit, in particular, seems to be the poster child for high-volume, low-value blogging). Kevin Drum and the Volokh Conspiracy can stay, however, since they consistently have a high level of insight and analysis. I'll keep subscribing to low-volume feeds (since the time it takes to keep up is low), where low-volume is defined as roughly less than one post per day. In those very rare instances where a high-volume blog also has lots of value, I'll keep that too. All this should give me more time to devote to my 12 Dot-Com Startups in 12 Months project, right? Posted at 09:17 AM | Permalink | | | |