Managing The Content Flood
Structured Blogging, Technology and Software
How do you manage the flood of content? Never in my life was I exposed to so much content about so many interesting things. How do you evaluate it? How do you filter? How often do you read each one of the different feeds? I actually have no answers, at least not good ones. But I’ll try to describe here some methods I developed and what tools I wish I had.
The way I gather content feeds, and in the definition of content feeds I include any source of information delivered via RSS – Blogs, newspapers etc, is viral. While reading one source I will pick, through links and recommendations, additional sources which I will add to my blogroll. Every content feed then will stay for a while until my periodic clean up session – when I’m evaluating the feed and make a decision if to delete it from my list. Although this approach is time consuming it allows me to explore many options and to develop by my own judgment list of trusted and credited content feeds.
Although I tried, and keep trying, many types of RSS readers I couldn’t find any that was better the Sage . Sage is extremely simple and acts as a sidebar in my Firefox . Since my content consuming and browsing are basically the same activity I have no reason to separate them. Any other reader is either too separated from the browser or not as real time as I want it (see for example Google’s Reader and Bloglines ). However, Sage is extremely simple and offers no way to aggregate posts or filter them.
One application that came close second to Sage is BlogBridge . BlogBridge offers the grouping and filtering I would like dealing with large amount of content feed. However after trying blogbridge for two days I decided to not use it since jump between my content application and the browser was too much of a hassle. If blogbridge will combine browser in the application (and mozilla is my preferred one) I’ll be happy to give it another try.
My requirement from my content application is very simple: make my life easier, not more complicated. My top most requirement are: It is necessary for this application to be embedded with browser and It should provide sophisticated filtering; for example when I’m at work and I have 10 minutes at noon I would like to see only what I consider hot news, in the morning I would like to read essays or more in depth content etc.
In the meantime I’m drowning.
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Rogel @ January 8, 2006