Reading blogs is a fun and time consuming hobby, which with a few tips, can become even more enjoyable whilst taking half the time.
1. RSS Groups By Importance
Love reading TUAW posts? Find some of the Engadget posts a waste of time? Create a few groups in your RSS reader – Very Important, Important, Less Important, Least Important. Then spend some time sorting your feeds into these groups. Then when you only have 5 minutes of time to check up on blogs, go straight into the “Very Important” group to find the content you are most interested in reading.
2. Cut Down To The Essential Blogs
You are always going to learn more, enjoy more, and have much more free time if you are reading 20 blogs rather than 100. Go through your blogs and choose which ones are producing the most original, fun content that you really enjoy, and delete all the other blogs that you find semi-interesting and are mostly “re-distributing” the news.
3. Take The Content In
Spend time to read and absorb every word of your most important feeds. Try and spend more time reading the content rather than browsing and sorting through it. Spend some time with the blogs you really enjoy or those that you find real value in. You will find you learn more by taking your time to read posts carefully.
How much time do you spend reading blogs daily, and how many blog RSS feeds do you track?