Technology Google Reader Users....

[dilla]

how many articles do you get in a day? Say you forget to check for a day how many do you end up with?

From what I've seen, I get between 350-500. Got about 50 feeds, about 15-20 are Android, 5-10 are Apple/Mac related. Got BGR and Ars Technica. And 10-20 miscellaneous like Lamebook, Failbook, etc. About 5 related to cars.

Just wondering if I had too many or if I just need to check more often. Of course, I could lean out the list, especially with the Android news, but I'm not sure which ones are crap. I know which are good, like Android and Me, Central, Androinica, etc.

Just curious what you guys have and how many articles you go through.

 

[S O F I]

Probably over a 1,000. No way to go through all that information. I have categories such as balkans, design, fashion, economics, food, music, news, photos, random, etc. It's not really there for me to go through every feed every day. It's just there for me when I feel like having easy access to that information. My favorite feed is Boing Boing probably.

I don't have any Android or Apple feeds because I know if it's important enough, Casey will post about it here, and Apple is so big and widespread that it's impossible not to know what's going on with it.

 

[dilla]

Yeah, but I'd rather not have to come to this thread and sift through important articles. Also, "important" is subjective. Casey may not see some things as important when to me they might be. That's why you personalize your Reader.

So 1000? You just let them stack up well into the thousands and just browse old articles? Or clear them out? I feel a bit better. When I'm bored, I check on my phone or on my laptop.

 

[masta247]

I don't use it because of that. It steals my life.

Whenever I get some info - whether it's more or less important to me I usually want to read more about it and end up wasting too much time and still not reading about 95% of things. I'd want more detailed filters so I would get 10-20 articles/day - only those that are the most important to me.
For example when I wanted business-related info I'd get shitloads of things that I couldn't care less about. I want to get business info but only about selected branches and only the most important from other branches.

I solved that by reading news on single selected sites dedicated to things that interest me. I usually get 1-5 big news on each site/day and I'm happy.
Also I think that RSS feed is not for me - I dislike being spammed with info and then browsing and sorting to find what I really wanted.

 

[S O F I]

Yeah, but I'd rather not have to come to this thread and sift through important articles. Also, "important" is subjective. Casey may not see some things as important when to me they might be. That's why you personalize your Reader.

So 1000? You just let them stack up well into the thousands and just browse old articles? Or clear them out? I feel a bit better. When I'm bored, I check on my phone or on my laptop.

It's just Android. It's just a phone. LOL. If a new phone is coming out, Casey will post it here. I don't need a circle-jerking article on Honeycomb's minimum requirements for tablets. No offense, but you know what I mean? I'm not set out to be an authority figure on all things Android. I come here to make an informed decision about purchasing an Android phone and posts and links here do enough of that. Also, I frequent Gizmodo daily so if it's important enough, it's generally posted there.

As far as the articles, there's no clearing out, it's just marking them all read at the click of a button. I mean, it is information overload, but only if I set out to read every article and I never have that intention. I just go check it out a few times a day and kinda go from there.

It's just a Google Reader with feeds. You seem too obsessed with it...lol.

 

[dilla]

It's just Android. It's just a phone. LOL. If a new phone is coming out, Casey will post it here. I don't need a circle-jerking article on Honeycomb's minimum requirements for tablets. No offense, but you know what I mean? I'm not set out to be an authority figure on all things Android. I come here to make an informed decision about purchasing an Android phone and posts and links here do enough of that. Also, I frequent Gizmodo daily so if it's important enough, it's generally posted there.

As far as the articles, there's no clearing out, it's just marking them all read at the click of a button. I mean, it is information overload, but only if I set out to read every article and I never have that intention. I just go check it out a few times a day and kinda go from there.

It's just a Google Reader with feeds. You seem too obsessed with it...lol.

Like I said, it's not 300 articles on just Android. It's a mixture of other sites as well. Maybe you don't like cars and gadgets as much as I do. It beats having to visit all those sites one by one, or even half of them.

 

[S O F I]

You have 30 feeds on Android and Apple. I'm sure some are completely overlapping. It's like having Streethop as a feed when it just posts everything from other blogs. And, I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying I have a lot of feeds at my disposal because I prefer them over bookmarks.

 

[ARon]

I used to be up around there but I trimmed down a lot, mainly to the major news outlets, then when i get some free time or on a comp i go to the smaller blogs.

 

[dilla]

You have 30 feeds on Android and Apple. I'm sure some are completely overlapping. It's like having Streethop as a feed when it just posts everything from other blogs. And, I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying I have a lot of feeds at my disposal because I prefer them over bookmarks.

No, there is most definitely some overlap, when it comes to Apple and Android stories, and I am trying to trim those down by evaluating who posts the the news the quickest and with the best write up. I figure if I do it right, I should be down to about 200 or so articles, which is very easy to browse just by headline in 15 or 20 minutes. I do have quite a bit of free time in between classes and if I stay on campus, I usually sit at a table with my MBP and just chill.

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[Casey]

It used to be like 1000 a day, I trimmed it and now it's like 600...and I just skim the headlines to decide what's worth reading out of those, I always end up reading a fraction of them and then I just click "mark all as read" to get it down to 0.

 

[dilla]

Yeah. What app do you use? I've tried GReader, but after a while there would be sync issues or something or the other going on, so I stopped. I use the Google Reader app from Google now. Pretty simple, but... I just don't like it for some reason.

 

[S O F I]

My problem with Google Reader on Android and the browser version is that, lately, it stops listing every article.

 

[Casey]

Google Reader on browser and Android. Never had any problems with either.

 

[dilla]

If I use the volume rockers to scroll through articles, it hits a stop around forty or fifty articles in. I have to back out to the "All" section of the feed and start back again.

 

[S O F I]

^That's what I'm saying. It stops at a certain point and I didn't even elect to use the volume scroll. It sucks especially when some blogs average 100 posts a day.