Adjusting Your Information Flow – Part 2

Following up on yesterday’s post, I am continuing to delete feeds from my feed reader.

The two major ones deleted today were Mashable and Gigaom. I looked into scaling back on Lifehacker by trying to find a way to subscribe to only their top posts, but could not find that option. If any of you know how to do that, I’d love to hear from you.

As with TechCrunch, my review of a few dozen of the previous Mashable and Gigaom articles revealed that only a tiny percentage were of interest to me. In most cases, the stories they have that would interest me would be caught by TechMeme, so my subscription to it would capture key Mashable and Gigaom stories (at least the ones of interest to me). This sort of trimming would vary a lot by individual, I would think: some of you may find almost all of Mashable’s articles to be of interest, for example.

Most of the remaining blogs in my feeds are smaller ones that have little chance of showing up in TechMeme, but that have a reasonable percentage of articles that interest me. But getting rid of the big ones, the ones that feel like they have to publish 20 stories a day, is cutting down on my junk-to-info ratio.