Aggregator Overload
Monday, January 14th, 2008I have to admit for a steadfast love of RSS. Without it I no doubt would spend hours each day combing sites for news - well, I still do to a degree. I have to say that checking RSS feeds is without a doubt an addictive behavior. So who wants to start up a support group? RSSers Anonymous anyone?
At any rate I have to say that at least 70% of the items that drop in my aggregator of choice are complete garbage, clones of other posts, posts about posts I’ve already aggregated, or some other mundane category of blog post that I generally won’t bat an eye at.
Of course, I should note that at least 30%-40% of my incoming items are from a couple of aggregator themselves. Would probably do me some good to weed those out at some point. Of course I don’t really have the time, I have blog posts to read!