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title: Impressions
layout: post
category: Life
author: Josh Dady
tags:
- RSS
- Catching Up
---

Once I really started trying to catch up, it look less than a day.  Here are
a few observations I made along the way:

* Progressive lack of sleep[^setup] combined with jetlag does not seem to help
  this process.  The day that it took me only a small part of was Monday.
* I've got quite a few feeds that can be disposed of quickly for various reasons:
  * A couple of them are (I assume) broken, because most or all of the feed pops
    up as unread whenever a new item is added or (sometimes) just because it
    feels like it.
  * For some sources, I have to subscribe to multiple, overlapping feeds to get
    all the stuff I'm interested in.[^wired]
  * Some have such a low S/N ratio that I either don't bother with them and hit
    _Mark All as Read_[^mailorder] or I tend to skim the item titles a page at
    a time looking for stuff I care about rather than spacing through everything.[^vt]
* Unsurprisingly, you notice how much material is repeated feed after feed far
  more when you're reading most of a week's items rather than a couple of hours
  worth.

At any rate, I'm back to my old daily process of asking myself why I'm subscribed
to so many feeds that are full of crap.

[^setup]:     This has been a problem for the setup week for [Caraoke's][caraoke]
              first showing every year we've done it.
[^wired]:     [Wired][wired] is the poster child in this category.
[^vt]:        [VersionTracker][vt] is the poster child here.
[^mailorder]: Mail order sites dominate this category.

[caraoke]:    http://vwcaraoke.com/
[wired]:      http://www.wired.com/
[vt]:         http://www.versiontracker.com/
              
*[S/N]:       Signal/Noise

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