I was reading about 275 feeds (down from 425!) in NNW before I finally got overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information. Engadget and the like are fun to read, but I have to treat them like a Twitter stream — don’t worry about trying to read everything, or even most things. Just look at ‘em occasionally to see if something catches my fancy.

I’m now only reading a half-dozen feeds, almost all from friends, on a regular basis. NNW is a great program that really shines when you’re trying to drink from the information firehose. It’s a bit overkill for light use.

I just count how many feeds are in my netvibes pages : 72 ! I’m quite impressed by the amount myself. I’m subscribe to these feeds because I selected them from a bigger amount of feeds. I’m often subscribing to more, and regurlarly deleting some others I’m no more interested in. The feeds I’m reading are delaing with quite dieeferent topics (from technologies, photography, railway traffic, developement…).

The big question underlying your post is : how can people read all these feeds ? My answer is : I can, and I don’t… I’m checking my netvibe page irregularly, and each time only focusing on one or two topica. For example, today, I’m focusing on friends sites and rss. I only have there 5 websites to check, leaving tech, develppement, photography feeds… Next time, I will go for another topic, when I don’t know.. only when I feel to get informations, not before.

Here’s my OPML for reference: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/16897/John Rust Subscriptions.opml

I think reading the feeds is easier, and at school, we have a quota system, blocking us after we use 60mb of d/l in one day, so, feeds save me on all the random stuff I’m not interested in

Interesting post nonetheless Thanks!

Charlie -