12.05.2008

 

Google Reader overload

Yesterday afternoon I discovered bundles in Google Reader. Their staff has picked sets of websites on specific topics and you can subscribe to all of them in one click. Into my Reader queue went the bundles for Baseball, CSS, Green, Finance, Math, Parenting, Typography, Web Design, and Vegan. There's also a Fantasy Baseball bundle that I tried to grab but it taunted me and wouldn't let me subscribe; that's fine, I've got my core fantasy baseball sites to visit and probably hear about anything noteworthy through them anyway. When I was done I had over 800 unread items.

On my first pass I unsubscribed from feeds that didn't look that interesting. Since then I've been dumping feeds that generate too many items. I want to expand my reading but I don't want to be a slave to the Reader. Several of the feeds in Finance in particular swamped me with industry news and stock tips that I don't have time to read, but there were a couple that look really interesting to me, including Get Rich Slowly and I Will Teach You To Be Rich. Also, ALL of the Vegan feeds have delicious looking recipes. They all stay. All of the Typography feeds are already gone. They were interesting to look at but I only have a passing interest in the topic and they were more in depth than I need. The Math feeds all seem too technical and/or abstract for where I'm at right now, so I'll probably unsubscribe from them too, but I'm giving them a little more time before I decide. In the other topics I'd dropped a few feeds here and there.

Anyway, if you use Reader you might want to explore the bundles yourself and see what you get. If there are any other sites that turn out to be particularly good I'll post about them.

—Jack

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Are you vegan now?

# posted by Blogger Katherine H. : 12/08/2008 9:54 AM  

I am not, but I can eat what they can eat and there wasn't a Vegetarian bundle so I decided to check it out. My initial foray into vegetarianism was at least partially due to the fact that the non-meat eaters I knew seemed to be eating better tasting food than I was. One of the folks who really drove that perception was a vegan who always seemed to be eating something fun and exotic that smelled great. Seeing these recipes might give me an excuse to get into the kitchen more often too, but that remains to be seen.

# posted by Blogger jack : 12/08/2008 12:03 PM  

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