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I highly recommend it to anyone on OS X Leopard. Mail doesn't count unread RSS entries as unread mail, so RSS feeds become more of a "you could potentially look at this when you have nothing to do, and these are the entries you didn't read". It's good.
I think the key for me is subscribing to more posts than I could ever possibly read, and giving myself permission to not have to read all of them. Much like I used to read a newspaper, I've turned google reader into my information aggregator. It alerts me to daily podcasts, local/regional/national/global/financial news, interesting articles, etc... I read what's interesting, throw the rest away, star whatever I may w…
From the trends page on google reader: "From your 114 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 9,483 items."
I'm embarrassed to say that not once, but several times, I've collect loads of feeds and then rarely made good on reading them all. The stuff I was interested in would change over time, so I was left with feeds I wasn't so interested in anymore. I tried different feedreaders. And I would always feel overwhelmed when I saw 4,283 unread messages. So I'm back trying it again with a "must read" folder in Google Reader an…
I use Google Reader to read about 200 feeds. But I've ruthlessly pruned anyone that a) took too much absolute time (high volume, long posts - ie big news sites without targeted content) b) too low signal to noise ratio (typically from someone that writes one popular posts that's a little outside their main topics) - Stuff White People like was on this - funny, not that funny, repetitive, too often. If it was once a w…