Impressions

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