Pruning
My RSS reading has been way behind for months now, coinciding with the long stretch of time I wan’t actively blogging. I’ve been try to get caught up (via Bloglines) now for a few weeks now, but there’s still alot of feeds I haven’t read yet. Last weekend, after seeing Pwylla’s 9/11 post, I decided to link to it from my 9/11 post. Then I used my blogroll (powered by my Bloglines subscriptions) to visit all of the blogs I subscribe to, looking for other posts to link to. In the process, I found a number of blogs not updated for months, and one or two sites completely gone.
Since that time I’ve been meaning to prune my RSS subscriptions and clean up my blogroll. Finally got around to doing so. I’ve tweaked the categories a bit and re-ordered them. Reordering is always a pain in Bloglines- one of my few complaints about the site- you have to re-add items to their containers, which pushes them to the bottom of the list. Eventually, I got them ordered the way I wanted.
I then visted each site to see if they still exist, are updating, and are still of interest. In the end I unsubscibed from a handful. I also created a new Bloglines folder “Silent” where I’ve moved sites that haven’t updated in several months or more. When a feed becomes active, I’ll move it to another folder. I made the folder private to keep it off the blogroll; I also tagged a couple of other things private just to reduce blogroll clutter (like software update feeds). The blogroll is looking much more svelte as a result.
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i have a folder on blogshares where i keep a list of items i don’t have any stock in now but i want to keep track of. coincidental to your trimming of your listings, i’ve finally reactivated the BUG and am posting there again… PS: you wouldn’t happen to be, perhaps, an philly eagles fan? :)