Everyday, there are many different ways I get news and information delivered to me. My RSS reader is the one that delivers the most information to me, fast and in an easy to read and process way. The thing is, after about a year, my RSS reader gets filled up with feeds and begins to become slow and packed with too many feeds. This makes reading my feeds unproductive and time consuming.

Today, I though it was time to prune my feeds down to a more manageable size. After about a year of collecting feeds, I had well over 100 feeds in my reader. I managed to cut that down to under 100 feeds. I ended up trimming about 20 to 30 feeds from my reader which makes it more compact and easier to proces than a massive amount of feeds.

I first went though looking and deleted any feeds I didn’t read anymore and feeds which hadn’t been updated in a while. I also deleted any feeds which had similar content to another feed. For example, a lot of tech feeds get the same information, at the same time. there is no point at getting the same story twice so I decided which one writes the best articles and kept that one. I also sorted all my feeds into folder to make them easier to read. Instead of having 20 in one, 10 in another and 60 in another, I split them into more manageable folder with 10 or so feeds in each.

Now my RSS reader is much happier, and so am I. I don’t get as many duplicate stories and articles in my reader that I don’t care about. It is much more efficient at doing its job. I think everyone who hasn’t had a clean out of their readers shoud take some time this month to sort it out and remove the rubbish from it. I managed to shave about 4kb off my OPML file which is great in my eyes. You should have a clean out too!

• Dirty OPML (16kb)
• Clean OPML (12kb)

If you don’t already know, I have a Tumblelog hosted by Tumblr. I follow other peoples good tumblelogs, and people who have similar interests to me. I have recently been so annoyed and frustrated by two people I follow that it has resulted in me unfollowing them.

The first person I unfollowed annoyed me by spamming his twitter posts in his tumblelog. This results in about 20 post a day that consist of short messages taken from his twitter RSS feed. It is annoying because now my Tumblr dashboard is full of spam. Why would someone put spam in their tumblelog. If someone wanted to see your twitter posts, they would follow you there. There is no reason to move that into your tumblelog.

The second person annoyed me because I would see posts that they have reblogged off my tumblelog but they never sourced me. Everyone who has any kind of blog, whether its a full weblog, a tumblelog or even a microblog, they all source where they get things from. Its etiquette as well as common sense, well so I though. Unfollowing them isn’t going to stop them from not sourcing the people he gets content from but it mean I don’t have to see it, therefore can’t be that bothered by it.

So if anyone does these things, I am going to stop following them, whether it is on Tumblr, Twitter, a Blog or any other place online for that matter. Its annoying and frustrating! Don’t Spam and Source your posts! These things are so obvious but yet there are people that do it. I wonder how they would react if they were the one reading spam or the one that was having something they found or wrote and have that content used without sourcing!

About two hours ago, Apple’s Presentation would have ended. I have just woken up and don’t know where to go. There is going to be Apple information from the presentation everywhere on the internet. But where sold I go first to get all the information and pictures in a single, easy location so I don’t have to muck around sifting through information to get everything I want to know.

Digg will definitely have this in the top 10 dugg stories. Digg is one of the many bases online for Apple Fanboys and any big technology news is on there. Apple + New Product + Hype = Top Story! My guess would be that the story either links to Engadget, Gizmodo or Mac Rumors or all. If this is the case why not go to the original source first because I’m sure the information is spread across multiple posts.

I could go possibly go to Twitter, Pownce or Tumblr. Someone on there would have definitely linked to a website with a lot of information on it. My guess would be that it would link to the same article(s) as seen on Digg. The only problem is that there will be quite a few people with different links and I wouldn’t want to go to all the sites to find the exact same information on it so this method of getting all the information quickly might not be the best solution.

I could try the my RSS feeds because I know for a fact that there will be at least 5 different sources with information on the new iPods. The only problem is that this information will be mixed with other stuff so I would have to siff through my feeds. Also if I wanted to see any extra content, for example photo galleries, I would end up going to the site anyway to see these so why not just go to one at the start.

I guess I will just go straight to a website and have a look at the news. Now I have the problem of deciding which one would have the best content, whether its Gizmodo or maybe Mac Rumors of possibly Engadget, now thats a big decision. Well off I go. *crosses fingers for new iPods* :p