[geekery/LJ-drama] RSS feed housecleaning

[trochee]

My friends page got to the point where I'm reading far too many posts to see what's really happening with the real people on my friends lists. I just had too many other feeds chipping in small comments every few minutes; by the time an interesting discussion got started on somebody's journal, they'd often scrolled off the bottom of my friends page.

So I downloaded Liferea, a Linux Feed Reader, and installed all the feeds for all those high-volume, fun things that were clogging up my view of the real people on livejournal: BoingBoing, and a bunch of lingua-bloggers (so many that I need extra words here) and several of the communities that I read and almost never post to (though I retained membership in those communities). And I took them all off my friends list, as well as some other pruning of said list. So now my friends page really looks -- well, like a list of my friends on LJ.

And for those few of you on my friends' list who don't keep a livejournal but do keep a blog elsewhere (e.g., esk and psychicle), I've added your blogs to my feedreader. If anybody else has an external blog I should track too (hint, hint, _dkg_), please let me know.

And now I have some sense of organization for my various feeds, too. And -- final bonus round for those of you who've read this far -- Liferea stores the feeds offline, so I can read the fulltext feeds, at least, on the bus!

Comments

[xaosenkosmos.livejournal.com]

I have a few people who are honest-to-god friends yet have an awful habit of posting quizzes. That, combined with some previous subscriptions like yours, resulted in a "people" friendsgroup which is about all i read anymore. Of course, it's not a public group, lest i offend any of my semi-neglected friends...

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I had an "individuals" friends-group -- actually, I still do -- that was the one I read when I wanted to find out what was really happening in people's lives. But I found myself only reading that one, and realized I need to do this housecleaning. And Debian makes it easy.