Too much of a good Instapundit
March 10, 2009 6:45 AM Subscribe
Is there any way to make GoogleReader (or another RSS/feed reader) limit the concentration of posts I see from any given website?
I use GoogleReader to keep up with a slew of blogs and some other websites. There are a lot of them -- I have over 100 subscriptions, mainly blogs. Though I basically like the huge convenience of this system, there is one thing that bothers me: some blogs have lots of posts every day -- say, 20 or more. Other blogs update about once a day or even less. I wish I were seeing posts from those sparser blogs as often the ones from the more profilic blogs. As it is now, there are some blogs I'm only mildly interested in that I end up reading all the time, while some of the most interesting blogs that happen to have fewer posts get lost in the shuffle.
Ideally, I'd like to have a filter akin to the way Flickr displays photos from your contacts: they give you a stream of the latest 5 posts from every contact. I suppose the solution wouldn't need to be that draconian, but I would like some way of taming the overly prolific sites.
Admittedly, this is not a problem of earth-shattering proportions: I can get around it by manually clicking on one blog after another in GoogleReader. I'm just wondering if there's a way to automate this. (I realize another workaround would be to manually create one list for blogs with very frequent posts and another list for blogs with lighter posting schedules, but that would be too cumbersome.)
I use GoogleReader and would prefer to stay with that, but I'm open to switching to something else if this is impossible in GoogleReader.
I use GoogleReader to keep up with a slew of blogs and some other websites. There are a lot of them -- I have over 100 subscriptions, mainly blogs. Though I basically like the huge convenience of this system, there is one thing that bothers me: some blogs have lots of posts every day -- say, 20 or more. Other blogs update about once a day or even less. I wish I were seeing posts from those sparser blogs as often the ones from the more profilic blogs. As it is now, there are some blogs I'm only mildly interested in that I end up reading all the time, while some of the most interesting blogs that happen to have fewer posts get lost in the shuffle.
Ideally, I'd like to have a filter akin to the way Flickr displays photos from your contacts: they give you a stream of the latest 5 posts from every contact. I suppose the solution wouldn't need to be that draconian, but I would like some way of taming the overly prolific sites.
Admittedly, this is not a problem of earth-shattering proportions: I can get around it by manually clicking on one blog after another in GoogleReader. I'm just wondering if there's a way to automate this. (I realize another workaround would be to manually create one list for blogs with very frequent posts and another list for blogs with lighter posting schedules, but that would be too cumbersome.)
I use GoogleReader and would prefer to stay with that, but I'm open to switching to something else if this is impossible in GoogleReader.
Response by poster: Ohhhhhh, is that what that does? I noticed the "auto" setting but I couldn't understand it -- it just seemed kind of arbitrary.
posted by Jaltcoh at 6:58 AM on March 10, 2009
posted by Jaltcoh at 6:58 AM on March 10, 2009
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posted by Mwongozi at 6:48 AM on March 10, 2009