Comments on: SO MUCH GOOGLE READER http://thepuffinperch.com/2009/03/30/so-much-google-reader/ What part of DANGER WILL ROBINSON don't you understand? Thu, 28 May 2009 17:15:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Marcus http://thepuffinperch.com/2009/03/30/so-much-google-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Marcus Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:45:53 +0000 http://blog.pikafoop.net/?p=1076#comment-570 What? What! You read all your mail (email?)?!?? What's more, you feel that you have a social contract requiring you to read anything that any person sends you? Haha, yes, I think you can skip some of those spam posts that people build up, they don't have an override lock on your time. What? What! You read all your mail (email?)?!?? What’s more, you feel that you have a social contract requiring you to read anything that any person sends you?

Haha, yes, I think you can skip some of those spam posts that people build up, they don’t have an override lock on your time.

]]> By: Canthros http://thepuffinperch.com/2009/03/30/so-much-google-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Canthros Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:59:56 +0000 http://blog.pikafoop.net/?p=1076#comment-569 Perhaps you are just WEAK! Seriously, though, I only click through to <10% of all the articles that pass through my Reader instance. It might be slightly above average for the few title-only feeds I subscribe to, but I don't bother unless I'm missing important bits by not opening the original item. And I skim most stuff, regardless of source. If I find that I'm not reading a feed at all, then I'll drop it. (As I think I did to Ted ages ago: I like Ted, but his interests and my interests seem to overlap so little as to make my reading his shared items an exercise in mutual disinterest.) I operate on the assumption that other people do more or less the same thing, reading the things that sound interesting and skimming or outright skipping the stuff that isn't. Perhaps you are just WEAK!

Seriously, though, I only click through to <10% of all the articles that pass through my Reader instance. It might be slightly above average for the few title-only feeds I subscribe to, but I don’t bother unless I’m missing important bits by not opening the original item. And I skim most stuff, regardless of source. If I find that I’m not reading a feed at all, then I’ll drop it. (As I think I did to Ted ages ago: I like Ted, but his interests and my interests seem to overlap so little as to make my reading his shared items an exercise in mutual disinterest.)

I operate on the assumption that other people do more or less the same thing, reading the things that sound interesting and skimming or outright skipping the stuff that isn’t.

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