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23
Posted by Jeff on Thursday, July 23, 2009 - 1 48 pm
I have used Google Reader for about 3 or 4 years and would always get into a situation where it was overloaded and i regularly had 1000+ items in my reader to burn through. What I found was I never was actually reading anything and just clicking 'j' (key for next item).
So about 3 weeks ago I started over, I deleted my subscriptions and just recorded my habits of websites I check regularly. About this time Google released the social media improvements of Google Reader.
This allowed me to follow others and get stories they believe are important and wow has it changed my reading experience. I have about 20 subscriptions but am following the same number of people. I feel that I am getting all of the good stories from all over the web both from my subscriptions and all of my followers shared stories.
If you are using another RSS reader I would recommend giving it a try for a week and see what you think. If you would like to follow me and get the stories I recommend (political and technical stories) you can follow me here.
