How do you keep up with all of the reading? | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

Simple.  I read 300+ posts and articles per day. 

My Google Reader stats:

From your 195 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read
9,216 items, clicked 75 items, starred 4 items, shared 288 items, and emailed 1
items.
Since June 4, 2009 you have read a total of 177,726 items

Of the 195 subscriptions, 2 of them are aggregated feeds(using Yahoo pipes) containing about 100 actual news feed, filtered for keywords.

I don't keep up.  I only subscribe to help everybody's stats – I actually read a core of 15-20 blogs every week, stop in at my commenters' sites, and check out any others that come across my radar through friends like the Yakezie.  I pretty much ignore my subscriptions, sorry everybody.  There just isn't enough time in a day.

Jason@LiveRealNow said:

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

I don't keep up.  I only subscribe to help everybody's stats – I actually read a core of 15-20 blogs every week, stop in at my commenters' sites, and check out any others that come across my radar through friends like the Yakezie.  I pretty much ignore my subscriptions, sorry everybody.  There just isn't enough time in a day.

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Slacker.

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Shush or I'll kick you out of my core group of favorites.  ;-)

It is really hard! I always go to my commenters' sites, I check out a few new sites a week, and my RSS feed goes untouched for weeks. I always was struggling with reading because there is not enough time. In fact, my strategy is really close to what Crystal said. You can't write, respond to comments and plan your next post AND read thousands of blogs out there…  and … I need my sleep! LOL

I don't look at my reader.  I just hop all over the place, reading and commenting along the way.  I always visit a blog that commented on my site, that is a given.  Other than that, I don't have a set formula.  If I kept up with everything in my Reader, I would be more insane than I already am.

I've been able to keep up with the 70 or so sites I subscribe to.  I don't actually read all the articles, but I scroll through the new reads and take a look at the title to see if I want to check them out.  By simply scrolling down the reader the items become "read" regardless if I go and read the items.  Some posts just don't pertain to what i'm looking to learn/read so I don't read them.  Some sites post just a few "articles" I like, so I read those and "un-highlight" the rest (e.g. really useful to most, but not so much to me, dividend stock analysis on US stocks).

 

I signed up on twitter to increase our profile but I must admit I don't read through all of the posts there either.  Perhaps I will start doing it more, but I like the reader a lot more as I get more than just a "title" – the blurbs that follow in the reader really help me to pick and choose what I will spend my time reading.

Like MoneySmarts I have something like infinite unread in my reader.  I try to keep up via twitter and lately I've been trying to follow on FaceBook as well.

Good question Kevin. Let me know when you find out the answer. I'm just trying to live with lots of balls in the air and lots of things undone. I constantly try to focus on the most important task at each specific moment-but I'm not too good at that either! I'm glad I'm not the only one perpetually overwhelmed. (And let's not get into businessweek, wsj, newsweek, elle decore etc.)

RSS is a boon!  Though I was aware of RSS, never really put that to use.  But now that I'm a convert, I can see how useful this can be.  I use Twitter mainly to discover new blogs… haven't really used it as much.

MyJourneytoMillions said:

I love checking out my RSS reader.  I skim titles and posts.  I don't need to read how to save 45 cents on lighting so it takes less than 5 seconds to mark "read" and go on to the next post.

 

I also check out Yakezie Lists like the one found on Crystal's site and I will VISIT each site (with the alexa toolbar) and comment when I feel the need because that is where this group started.

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I didn't know anybody was looking at my list, so I replaced it last week with a better description of the group and a link to the Yakezie list here.  I can bring it back though if it was helpful.  I use the same one as Deliver Away Debt.  :-)