Comments on: Blog Improvement Project Week #18: Organizing Your Blog Reading

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:30:38 +0000

I sometimes think not having a feed reader would be nice; they I could just visit blogs whenever and not let the “unread posts” count stress me out. But feed readers are efficient and save time from clicking through blogs, so I like it for that.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:29:26 +0000

Sounds like good progress! I got rid of a few random national blogs this week too which was refreshing.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:48:40 +0000

I use bloglines despite its annoying tendancy to tell me people all of a sudden have 200 new posts when they have none – it’s just an eye preferenance thing, for me bloglines is more readable. Anyway just dropping by to say that I’ve done a couple of thigns for this task:

got rid of the blogs I don’t read (mostly craft, blog news blogs or blogs from the big literary establishments like NYTimes) maybe I’ll pick those up again someday, but they were clogging my reader bar.

took any blog with over 50 posts back to base so I can catch up with the posts as they accumulate – if any move up to 50 unread again I might think about rmeoving them for now

I plan on sorting out some folders, I already have a WG participants folder so I just need to decide how to organise. Thanks for this task, it was a push I really needed.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:05:02 +0000

I started cleaning out my reader a couple of weeks ago. I don’t check the feeder very often, and have a heart attack when I check in. Yikes! It’s down to 250 now. The blogs I follow are mainly bookish blogs and I separate them with titles like author blogs, children, libraries, teens, etc. I delete blogs that have partial feeds too.

By: Julia Smith

Julia Smith — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:22:21 +0000

After recently reorganizing my book review archives, giving some attention to my sidebar links sounds perfect. Strange as this may seem, I don’t have anything linked up to a feed. I just get to blogs from my link list. No tempting blog post titles to sway me. I just feel like visiting a particular blogger and then head over.

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:08:20 +0000

Hi Kim,
Great idea for Blog Improvement. I really liked the articles you put a link to. They were very informative. Mine is posted at my place, Just Books if you want to take a look. Have a great day!

Sherrie

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:59:57 +0000

It is supposed to be fun! Sounds like a sort of system to me — I’m too methodical and obsessed with having unread folders to do that. Although, once GR made it so you could turn off the unread counts next to blogs my life got a lot better

By: Suey

Suey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:37:07 +0000

Just posted a question this topic brought to mind, and one I’ve been thinking about lately since BBAW. I ‘d love to know what you think: http://sueysbooks.blogspot.com/2009/09/to-add-or-not-to-add-that-is-question.html

By: Care

Care — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:42:52 +0000

I know my random blog reading makes me miss many great posts but my first loyalty is to read the latest post(s) by people who comment at my blog and then get to my favorites (which are those in my reader I feel I’ve been neglecting?!) and then only those blogs in my reader with the highest unread post count THEN back to my faves or (weekly geeks linky list) and THEN whoever in Twitter posts a “Hey-I-Just-Posted” (cuz I’m nice like that) and then when my googlereader hits 1000+ I clear it out and see if I can keep it at zero for a few days and then…
I check myself into Blog-Rehab and start all over again!
It’s supposed to fun, right?

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:26:28 +0000

This is so informative. I don’t have a system, and while I may not implement one after reading everyone’s suggestions, it will be good to know about more options.