I used to read no less than 100+ feeds coming into Google Reader a day. My current reading pattern looks something like this:
As you can see, most days I read less than 60, some days even less than 30. The difference? I’ve been using Twitter a lot more and clicking on links that people are sharing via Twitter. I’m assuming I only have so much attention for information online, and this is a natural selection process. (Let’s not even get to my close to non-existent FriendFeed usage).
Has anyone else noticed this trend? I know @stripedshirt and @MikeReynolds posted tweets saying they identify with the trend, while Louis has a great blog post on why he has no issues with information overload. Anyone else?
Tags: @MikeReynolds, google reader trends, rss, rss tradeoff, stripedshirt, twitter, twitter tradeoff
April 8, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Not for me. Everything just keeps going up! Twitter activities… FriendFeed… Google Reader… nothing ever goes down.
April 9, 2008 at 8:48 am
no problems. all is good. then again i don’t have a million rss subscriptions like you.