RSS Bankruptcy

I know that RSS has made it extremely easy to stay updated on what’s new and happening on all of my favorite websites. My challenge is that I haven’t kept up-to-date on my RSS subscriptions. I’m currently looking at an updated feeds list of 5 figures. Yep! Over 10,000 unread items.

My chosen RSS reader has been Bloglines pretty much since the beginning. I probably tried one or two other ones before landing with Bloglines, but I can’t even remember what the name of them even were.

As I was working through some new sources of information this evening, I started subscribing to their RSS feeds. Then I saw an option to subscribe by email and thought that might be a better option these days.

You see I’m always in my email, but I’m not always in Bloglines. Would it be better to just subscribe by email for everything again? I think to do that I’d need to really think through how I’d organize my email Inbox and folder structure to support that influx of additional email. I think I’m averaging about 300 emails a day right now.

How’s your use of RSS going? Is it still the best method for you to stay current on information? Do you use twitter instead? Have you thought about going back to email as the single point of intake for information?