So I got a monstrous opml list from The Big Swede and imported it into NetNewsWire. This is about 250 feeds, on a variety of subjects. I was previously watching about 50 feeds, so it’s a big injection, and it exacerbates an issue I was already having. Duplicates.
Whenever some bit of news comes out, everyone and their mom makes a little post with a link to the item. What I get in NNW is about 15 posts with titles like “apple releases new G5″. I’m fine with this as long as these posts are coming from dedicated news sites that are really only republishing news from other sources anyway, but it kills me when it’s on normal blogs. Please, for the love of god, dump news blurbs to which you are not contributing anything into a sidebar and off of your main XML feed. Thank you.
Also, it would be really nice to have have rss genres so that I could sort entries that way.
Feeds good. Napster bad.
I just try and keep things sorted into folders within NNW.
250 subscriptions? Yikes. I have 52 and that’s more than enough to even attempt to keep track of. Between 300-500 items a day it feeds me, and I don’t have near enough time to read them all.
It’s all about the skimming. I actually don’t read the vast majority of posts, just skim the headlines.
People’s cats just aren’t that interesting, and like Joe was kwetching about, the 10th announcement that iTunes has been updated really doesn’t need reading.
I try to keep things arranged as well. Does OPML support groupings? Nothing I have tried exporting or importing with seems to.
It would be really nice to just be able to do a genre sort instead of having to manually move a lot of feeds into folders. I know it would be hard assigning genres to most blogs, but it seems like it would be worthwhile.