Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

So Many Blogs, So Little Time

Like the Idler, I am currently experiencing blogroll meltdown. There are so many blogs to read and so little time to do it. I have no idea how to cope with the traffic anymore short of connecting the computer to my brain ala ‘The Matrix’.

You may have noticed that I’ve removed all links from my sidebar. Using the new ‘page’ feature in Wordpress and the blogroll feature in Bloglines, I have placed all my links to other blogs and websites in one consolidated page.

The number of sites I track is quite massive. And I read each and everyone of them when they post new shite without fail. In the beginning, I posted comments on most of their articles. But these days, I find that I just lack the time to do so anymore. I read the stuff you write, but I won’t post comments unless

1. You wrote something very enlightening
2. You wrote something disgustingly stupid
3. You’re on the verge of suicide
4. I happen to be on my coffee break

So yes, I am reading your blog. Without fail. Everyday. But sometimes no time lah. I hope you understand. My workload is now mounting again and I have less and less time to surf during the day.

But I really do reading your comments on my blog, they are the high points of my day. So keep them coming ok?

P.S: If your blog is not on my list, please let me know and I’ll add it. Contact me via email.

It’s quite a bit of work catching up with what goes on in the blogosphere… adding comments to blog brings this to another level of tediousness. However, I think it is a social responsibility to comment on blogs as it adds more credibility to important articles. That’s why I do it and I hope others will too. Granted we can’t possibly comment on everything, but make it a habit of say the 50-50… you blog twice daily, comment on other blogs twice daily. I think this would be a healthy way to go for the continual growth of our blogosphere.

CowboyCeleb: Add me to your A-list and make me famous baby! :)

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I agree. I read almost that same amount of blogs too, and sometimes I can’t even finish reading them.

har har ah the troubles of the busy blogger! First you won’t post on other’s blogs, next step is that you won’t reply to pplz comments in your own blog!!

My bloglines feeds also damn jialat. Every day got about 300+ to read.

I’m sure bloglines is popular since it is free and easily accessible. As MrMiyagi (damn I love that name, sensei) said, one way to make sense of it all is to produce a smartfeed. Not sure if bloglines can do it, but it’s a feature in feedreading software like NewsFire. SmartFeed further aggregates and highlights your feeds for you based on things you like… e.g. Mac, porn, whatever. Fortunately, bloggers tend to reference each other for news so you can also tell what’s newsworthy based on what your favorite bloggers “copy” from one another! i.e. prioritize in order of your favorite bloggers so you can tell what’s good out there… e.g. BoingBoing.net

i do read many weblogs but only comment a few …

Caleb…I am in the middle of upgrading to WP , my WP url is http://www.mapendoz.com/wp sorry if this part is off-topic, can i email u coz I got difficulties with this WP things :-(

i have problems catching up too.. esp with your linkorama hehe. I do that during the weekends and check out all the links. :)
Cheers!

ah…

I give up =D [got error in a database wp]

anyway i always read ur blog, u seem to always have an idea to post eh….its difficult for me, seriously :P

thumbs up ;)

Zenith > Blogs that only post part of their post in the rss force you to go to their site to read the whole article. This is really irritating right?

Aneki > Hahaha I’m replyin now aren’t I?

Miyagi > fwah, I bet 80% are cute chick’s journos.

echa > yeah you can email me. And I don’t really have ideas. I have diarrhea of the brain.

fatfingers > hehehe weekends only ah? Hella lotta links!

echa, email me at mandrake too.. i see if I can help.

while im using Newsgator, everyone else is on Bloglines. Is Bloglines better? pls advice^^.

okay I will try again this earlier in the morning, I’ve uninstalled it for now due to the database

thanks :)

eh, you can set the perm page as a page.. like cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com/dailyread in WP. go try it out.

i usually try to keep my sg blog list to around 50 (i still have many more non-sg blogs to follow). if the blog is consistently boring for too long, i’ll just unsubscribe. and i don’t usually comment unless i have something to say…

p.s. u don’t seem to have me on your list *hint*

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