I spend around two hours each and every day in my RSS reader, what do I gain from this? I get the latest news in my favorite industries, and a few good articles to read, but nothing more. The time spent in my RSS reader is wasted in my opinion, the less time I’m behind NewsFire, the more work I can complete.

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I recently just sat down and cleared out my RSS reader, removing over 200 feeds to a new count of under 50. In the past I woke up to around 500 new RSS items, now it’s around 100. The time it takes to clear the new items has decreased ten fold, doing wonders for my productivity.

How did I choose what to remove and what to keep? Firstly, I went through all the blogs which are updated more than 10 times daily, and choose which ones were important to me, TUAW was the only one.

Next I went through blogs which hadn’t updated for more than a month, and un-subscribed from all of those. The final step was to go through and pick out 30 of my favorite blog feeds - ones which I always get excited when I see the unread icon next to. I kept all of these blogs and removed the others which I was less fussed about.

The result? 50 feeds, less updates, less time in RSS, and more free time to blog.

Download my OPML file.