Epic RSS Feed Cull

As I’ve come to the conclusion that my time is far more valuable than anything else, I decided to go through all of my RSS feeds again and strip out those that I didn’t read as diligently as I should. Even though I’d brought the list of RSS feeds down by a substantial number a few months ago there were still too many sitting in NetNewsWire. Once the decision to go through them, and unsubscribe from ones that I deemed less valuable to me than spending that time doing something else was made, I spent some time this evening  weighing up exactly how many sites I actively read and how many were still there because they might have something I found useful.

When asking myself whether my time is valuably spent reading these sites or not the culling process became slightly easier. I’d already organised most of the feeds into a “Must Read” folder and several other categories. Needless to say the “Must Read” feeds are still there. Other’s that weren’t “Must Read” but I enjoy for the content stayed, as well as the purely informational ones (my web hosts status feed & the MobileMe status feed for example). Discounting the status feeds, and my own feeds, (used to make sure there are no problems with them), I managed to cut around 150 feeds down to 35.

Here are a handful that survived the cull, and I highly recommend you check them out.

Whatever – The blog of author John Scalzi. This should be read by everyone.
Penny Arcade – Home of the fantastic Penny Arcade web comic.
Rapid Eye Reality – Brad ‘Otis’ Willis is a fantastic writer I suggest you all read.
Tao of Pauly – The personal blog of Dr Pauly from Tao of Poker fame.
The Totally Rad Show – A Video podcast talking about movies, video games and much more. My favourite video podcast out there.

There are obviously more that I think are worthwhile uses of my time, otherwise these would be the only ones left in my RSS Reader. I’ll save them for another time.