The signal to noise ratio is too low. (Not high - Edited 4-11 - typo..hah)
The past couple months have been a pretty serious trial in seeing what i can and can’t do (This was self inflicted, fun, and exciting). The next couple of months see more of the same things and I’m starting to feel like I have less than enough time to accomplish the things I’d like to.
Thankfully, I have a new years resolution safely tucked away from 12:01am on January 1st for just this sort of thing.
Less is more.
It’s more of a theme for the year than a resolution, but my goal for 2007 is to harness the power of “less is more” more often than I ever have before. It started with having too much stuff and not using enough of it to make what I really want to (Robot parts / books / spare 2×4s), and as of tonight “less is more” will now extend to my rss feeds.
These are my old feeds: My Old RSS Feed OPML
I’ve narrowed down from that list (typically weighing in at 3000 articles a week - with about 1000 of them being ads I only browsed the headlines of), to a list of 5 (not necessarily my top 5, but just the 5 I’d feel a little better for reading every day.
Top 5:
YCombinator Startup News - what reddit used to be: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
LifeScience.com - generic bleeding edge science news: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Livesciencecom
Forum Nokia Blogs - interesting mobile related articles: http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/rss_entry_feed.rss
XKCD - best comic in the world:
http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml
Communities Dominate Brands - Book blog about the title. Lots of mobile material: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/index.rdf
Now this test is going to be for at least a month (could make it) - and I’m counting on friends to email me the really cool shit I miss, but I’m hoping it will work out and at least convince me to put a stronger filter on the stuff I read in the future.
By the way - if you haven’t checked out my top five - try reading them regularly for a week. I will be…