When I signed on as a contributing editor for Blogher I immediately began surfing various blog search engines for new blogs related to health & wellness topics. When I found a new blog, I added it to my aggregator in the "health" category. Sometimes I created new folders for specific sub-categories when I knew I’d want to write longer, more detailed "surfing guide" type things. I figured I’d keep the blogs til I wrote the posts for Blogher and then I’d release them back into the blogosphere. Oh sure, I expected to keep a few really great, new finds. But, for some reason, I’m having trouble letting any go free! I’ve got a folder called "dogs" for goodness sakes! Who would have thought I would have trouble letting go of blogs about dogs, even if they are really cool service dogs? NOT ME, that’s for sure.
But no, I can’t let them go. I sit down almost everyday to clean out my feeds and I can’t bring myself to do it. We’re only a couple of weeks into Blogher and I’ve increased my list of feeds by 100! I’ve only ditched 3! Imagine how many feeds I’ll be reading by the time Blogher arrives in July? It’s frightening. I need an intervention or something.
Denise, maybe you need to find a dog (or someone with a dog) to take you out for a walk when the urge to read about dogs hits!
You just inspired me to clear out my “keep new” posts and do a mini-roundup of the ones I really want to blog on.
As far as subscribing goes, I add them for a week and if I find myself skimming but not loving subsequent posts, I take ’em off the feeds and leave ’em tagged in del.icio.us for future reference.
I see you wangled a CoComment invite…got one to share?
Ed, honey, I have two dogs. Two dogs that I do not like. No, no more dogs. Hey, would you like my dogs? I could bring them to you, I’d like a vacation!
DnW – go to cocomments and put your name in the notify me when it’s available box, they’ll send you an invite.
Cool, will do. Interesting — for some reason the trackbacks are wonky — I pinged your trackback link last night on my roundup post but it’s not showing.