Declaring RSS bankrupcy

August 29th, 2008

Hello, My name is Denis and I’m an RSS addict. I’m addicted to information. I like to know everything. I subscribe to so many RSS feeds that I don’t remember when my Google reader was below "1000 unread" items. For those who don’t know, Google won’t show you the exact number of unread items when you hit the 1000 unread items mark.

I always managed to keep up with local events. I made Montreal and friends feeds a top priority. Then it was the rest of the world. Just like an addict, I always told myself that I could eventually catch up. That I would read all my feeds. I was wrong.

So I declared RSS bankruptcy.

Unlike email bankrupcy which is a more severe form of social exclusion, RSS bankrupcy will only affect me. No hard feeling if I haven’t read your blog, ok? Then again, chances are you will never know…

So earlier today I did what I thought would be impossible. I zeroed all my feeds. I have nothing to read now. I don’t know if it feels good or not yet but I feel like I can move on to something else. I also had to kill some heavy feeds and I had to change the way I management my feeds. I guess I should take some time to catchup with old emails now