Comments on: Feed Cleaning

By: Robert Blum

Robert Blum — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:46:44 +0000

Hazmat, I don't think there are any direct replacements. Instead, it is a number of sites that are more suited to my tastes (and have less frequent postings) that I use instead. My favorite Mac site, for example, is daringfireball.net. Random technews usually bubble up through some of my co-workers.

And moving these sites off my RSS feeds doesn't mean I don't read them any more. It just means I don't get them as a part of my regular diet. If I'm waiting for a long compiler run, or just bored, I'm still likely to hop over there and read a few things.

By: hazmat

hazmat — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:58:06 +0000

So if slashdot.org gets it links from other sites, and digg.com has a too high signal-to-noise ratio – what sites are now taking the place of these two?

By: TOMAS

TOMAS — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:50:42 +0000

I was thinking about cutting a bunch of feeds from my reader but opted to just group the ones that distracted me in a folder entitled “feeds-that-distract-me”. If I have time to spare, I’ll browse through them and see if there’s anything interesting, else I just mark them all as read on a weekly basis.

By: simplisticton

simplisticton — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:42:21 +0000

Digg.com -- it has way too high a signal-to-noise ratio and a really short memory. The same stories (or variations thereof) get linked repeatedly as new people discover them.

As far as curiosity sites like BoingBoing go, I think it's largely a matter of taste. If the editors of the site pique your interest more often than not, the value of the site goes up, but since by and large they all tend to blog close to the same things, the value comes from a) being close to your taste and b) the associated commentary.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:12:04 +0000

What, no fark?