I’m “Back”
So after taking a week off from my digital media addiction I have a few take-aways:I don’t need techcrunch (or mashable, venture beat, hacker news, digg, or anything else of the sort)
Maybe I’m just lucky because I have connected friends who send me enough things, but I didn’t feel out of the loop or that I had missed anything of any consequence.
I spend a lot of time on google reader.
I never really had a significant temptation to quit my plan early, but I did notice very frequently as I was working the mental “twitch” whenever I reached a minor stopping point or ran into anything difficult. While Google Reader is amazing, its also a great way to procrastinate on a daily basis.
There’s a lot of noise
Moving forward
I’ve severely trimmed my subscriptions: (Old OPML) Vs. (New OPML) We’ll see how long techcrunch remains in there. Hacker News is staying because despite its high volume, it has in my opinion the best signal to noise ratio of anything high volume in my opml. I intend to blog more, randomly J-Walking Less, and limit google reader to twice a day.
