Information consolidation

Published by Davina | Filed under Post

Jennifer and I have both started new jobs recently, which explains our radio silence lately. As a result of changing jobs however, I’ve realised that my information needs have changed. Both because of a lack of time and because of a change in roles.

As a result, whenever I do get a chance to sit in front of my google reader, I am evaluating everything I read to determine how valuable the information is that I’m getting. In the past week I’ve unsubscribed from around 10 – 15 feeds, but my reader is still looking as crowded as ever so I may have to get a bit more ruthless.

I’m not just cutting work related feeds, I’m also examining the ‘recreational’ feeds I have. I have a large number of tech related blogs that I want to read but I always end up ‘marking all as read’ so I think it might be time to scale them back.

I’ve always had a large number of feeds as I’m always afraid that I’m going to miss out on something (a fear that meant I very rarely missed school and still hate missing work!). But I’m slowly realising that I just don’t have the time (or the inclination any more) to be on top of absolutely everything. If there’s something important happening in another blog, I’m sure that I’ll find out – either through another blog or twitter.

Basically, I’m trying to streamline my information sources. And hopefully this will help me get back into the swing of reading, posting and commenting again and not be overwhelmed by the numbers in my reader!