Feed Phobia
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that I am the first to coin “ressaphobia” — the irrational fear of RSS feeds. Don’t get me wrong, I believe RSS feeds are the greatest thing since sliced bread! It’s just that I can’t bear to open my feed aggregator (Bloglines) in fear of the fire hose of posts I’ve yet to read. Because with each passing day the number of new posts on the blogs and podcasts I’ve elected to follow keeps growing, the dread I feel at facing those growing numbers increases respectively. It’s a vicious circle. I can’t keep up, so I don’t even glance at the good stuff I’m missing.
Shamefully, I’ve resorted to “manually” checking the few blogs maintained by my closest friends! What self-respecting blogger doesn’t actively follow other bloggers with rss? Maybe I’m not a real blogger…
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