Thursday, October 22, 2009

Method 4

Method 4
I signed up for six feeds, but will probably drop some or maybe all of them. Three of the feeds that I signed up for were

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
http://labs.familysearch.org/blog/
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/opera/index.html?

The problem for me is that in signing up for these feeds, I am presented with an overwhelming number of articles that I can read, but don't have the time for. There is a guilt trip associated with seeing all the articles that have come to me, but which I cannot keep up with. I have enough problem feeling guilty about all the books and movies I am not getting to read or watch. Before I signed up for these feeds, I didn't know what I was missing, and wasn't missing it all that much. There were times when I went directly to a blog, to see if there was any earth shattering news, but that was as far as I went. Now all the earth shattering news, and alot that isn't, comes to me whether I want it to or not. Of course, I don't have to read everything, and I haven't. But there is more than enough that interests me, that I can spend quite a bit of work time (not that I would) and time outside of work, reading articles of interest just because they are there. I can see the importance of blogs and newsfeeds coming directy to you. If an organization uses blogs to impart important information to its employees, it would behoove the employees to sign up for automatic feeds of whatever important information the higher-ups wanted to impart. And definitely, if someone has a great interest in something for which there are good blogs or newsfeeds that cover that interest, it would be useful for that person to be able to receive information about it on a continuing basis, rather than having to go out to find the information. So I don't know if I will stay signed in to all the blogs and feeds I signed up for. At least now I know how to subscribe to different sites, if I feel the need to do so in the future.

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