I followed about 40 blogs until today. It does not take much to realize that causes me to loose a lot of time, especially on a larger period of time.
Be more productive tip #2: press the delete button on some of the blogs you’re following.
Evaluate if they provide information (as in useful information) to you and clearly delete the ones that aren’t. Also, low volume is not a reason to keep them: they will just draw your attention one way or another.
Cut back to less than 20. That seems reasonable, no?
Some I deleted:
- Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen
Although I like Scott’s writing style a lot, .NET is not my cup of tea anymore.
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Ibuildings Blog
They post to little useful information (for me, as a developer).
- Small Business Trends
This was a difficult one. While I really enjoyed reading their posts, it did not contain enough information for me.
- Xaprb
I just don’t use MySQL in a way Baron blogs about it and realized I probably never will.
- Lifehacker
You just need too much time to follow all of their posts! Very nice posts though.
- Signal vs. Noise
This was another difficult one. I love their style but like they say themselves: focus!
- SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
Very painful. I also love their style but for various reasons this blog isn’t useful enough for me.
- Redo The Web
I will probably never use Symfony anyway.
- Eric Bergen
Just had to cut some more. Sorry Eric!
- Chris Shiflett
Sorry Chris!
Please note that this represents my opinion about these blogs and the effect on my work. They probably are appropriate to someone else.