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Blogging overdone... and better use of categories...

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Love this video, and it is so true too.  I've been monitoring my ~150 feeds lately and with the exception of news feeds of various types (business, finance, world news, etc.) I'm starting to get tired of some of the so-called "A List" bloggers (see parody here) and the sheer volume of posts (sometimes dozens and even over a hundred per day) that have questionable value... to anyone.

When I first started subscribing to a number of these feeds there was interesting information, even "late breaking industry news", but recently there have been full soap operas being played out... emotional rants, hurt feelings, tearful apologies, geez...

Something I'd like to propose is that people subscribe more "surgically" to specific categories/topics/memes (whatever you want to call them), and that bloggers start to use these to self-filter their own dialog.

Of course few bloggers would post to their "pure drivel" category, but it would be a nice way to save a few precious minutes each day while reading my feeds.

Now, I'm hardly practicing what I'm preaching here, but I'm working on changing JameHealy.com such that you CAN'T subscribe to the main feed, but rather than you can ONLY subscribe to specific memes that I am publishing.  A little experiment to be sure, and I'll let you know how it goes.  Unfortunately I'm not certain a log of other platforms will allow for this type of customization, but I'm fairly certain I can do it with my Drupal-powered site.

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