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Trends:

From your 150 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 17,857 items, starred 0 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 0 items.  (taken after feed removals)

New

• Mahalo Daily- Against my better judgement I signed up because the into video was funny. So I’ll give it a shot. Why is there commenting? And, I don’t see what this has to do with search or even Mahalo.

Hot

• Y Combinator Startup News- This is an incredible feed that I have been on since day 1. It’s not just startup news- it more like a quick and dirty wrap up of the day’s tech news. Kind of like Digg with the junk and without the comments.

Not

• Direct2Dell- This was pretty solid for a few weeks, but they have not been putting out anything interesting lately.
• Boing Boing Gadgets- It’s cool, but it’s missing something compared to Boing Boing. Plus they cover a lot of stuff that other sites have AND when they have something really cool, Boing Boing’s feed (which I get anyway) will link to it.
• Gigaom- Seems like these guys are slowing fading away. They had a good run, but lots of the info you can get elsewhere. I do like NewTeeVee and WebworkerDaily though.

Removed-

• Seeking Alpha Select- I used to read through all of Seeking Alpha and it was just taking up too much time. I created a Seeking Alpha Select feed that combined the topics I was most interested in into one feed and gave it a shot for a few months, but this is still too much (over 100 items a day) even at a fast skim. Finally unsubscribed- I’ll read 24/7 Wall Street and Blogging Stocks instead.
• Buzz Machine- I tried it for a number of months, but it had to go. The posts are too long and too frequent. Plus, whenever there is something really great, enough people link to it that I won’t miss it.
• Feld-The whole VC thing was interesting for awhile, but
• AVING USA- They used to get cool stuff really early, now it seems like everything I see there I already read about someplace else.
• Zoho Blog- It was pretty cool for a while, but they have not had much news lately and I am too tied into Google tools at the moment to leave.
• Memeorandum- It’s techmeme.com but for politics. It is a good feed to glance at from time to time, but given the signal/noise ratio (considering my interest in politics) it does not make sense to keep it on.
• 1938 Media- This was funny for awhile, but hasn’t held my attention lately. They stopped talking about web stuff and started going downhill. Hopefully when good stuff does show up, people will link to it.
• Profy- They have some good stuff now and then, lately all their best stuff I have been able to find someplace else, generally the day before. If I already read TechCrunch and Read/WriteWeb (I think that’s where the slash goes) then where does Profy fit in?
• High Scalability- Incredibly cool, but it’s mainly just links to things that I don’t deal with very often. Maybe I should have my dev team read it…

To the fallen sites- nothing personal. I originally started with RSS in order to optimize my reading and while that last for some time, it has spiraled out of control and something that I used to really enjoy and that saved me a lot of time is not somewhat of a burden.

Wrap-up:

Added: 1
Removed: 9

A few more weeks like this and I might get my RSS reading under control.

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