Welcome to my RSS reader
This is what I do in my evenings and weekends. This is what I do instead of watch TV. Sometimes this is what I do instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour.
I have a system for which RSS feeds I read and in which order (generally starting at the top and working my way down). While at BlogHer last week I input all the RSS feeds for anyone I met into the 2008-blogher-contacts folder and will start wading through them over the next few weeks months to get them into the right folders.
I just recently reorganized these folders after BlogHer 2008 because I realized I was still reading about a dozen blogs out of my “blogher-contacts” folder from 2007 and I was having a hard time remember who they were and why I was bothering. It’s not benefiting me to skim hundreds of blogs and get them all confused versus really getting invested in a few dozen blogs. So I’m trying to train myself to click through to the site itself if I’m not on the iPhone and to think about why I enjoy the site enough to keep reading it.
The relationships are what mean so much for me in blogging so my New Blog Year resolution (that runs from July to July for me) is to slow down and take slightly smaller bites and enjoy each one more.
Dear Genie's BlogHer friends,
We saw her first.
And why isn't there a BlogMan? I have no support or encouragement to blog myself…. [sigh]
genie Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 6:19 am
There were plenty of dudes at BlogHer. At least the same ratio as there are of women at most other technology conferences.
I recommend Laid Off Dad, Dad Gone Mad, Dear Spike, Love Dad and Sweet Juniper for encouragement and inspiration.
Oh and I'll wave my (literary) pompoms for you – GO TEAM!
genie Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 6:19 am
There were plenty of dudes at BlogHer. At least the same ratio as there are of women at most other technology conferences.
I recommend Laid Off Dad, Dad Gone Mad, Dear Spike, Love Dad and Sweet Juniper for encouragement and inspiration.
Oh and I'll wave my (literary) pompoms for you – GO TEAM!
Really? Because Rich said when he went he felt decidedly uncomfortable, if not unwelcome. (But perhaps I'm putting words in his mouth.)
I did the same thing with all the bloggers that I met… they are just in a blogher folder and over time, adn you're right, months, they will move to a more permanent home…
I blogged about your macbook air today… i will never be able to forget you… ha ha
Oh lord. This is what is waiting for me when I get home and go through all the business cards I've collected. Not that I don't WANT awesome blogs to read, but you people sometimes post TOO DAMN MUCH. I'm just saying.
I LOVE your organizational style. Mine is/was similar but is such a need of a revamp. I think I'll simply switch from BlogLines to Google Reader and just do it all again.
I still need to finish going through all the cards from BlogHer (getting that frakkin' BlogHerenza just killed about 10 days. (but I have opened 2 beers with my Genie in a bottle opener…)
genie Reply:
August 5th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Oh, I'm glad the bottle opener is working well for you! I was hoping it could be a church key style instead of twist-off, but it was more important to get that shape for the keychain.
Hope you're feeling better!
genie Reply:
August 5th, 2008 at 7:35 am
Oh, I'm glad the bottle opener is working well for you! I was hoping it could be a church key style instead of twist-off, but it was more important to get that shape for the keychain.
Hope you're feeling better!
The management of a Google Reader account is definitely a continuous process.