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Went Hot: October 4, 2007 - 7:58 pm
Posted By: cmiddlebrook 372 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com)
Category: Blogging
Here’s some of what I consider to be a pointless post…
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2000? Wow! Pssst... free hint: unsubscribe 90% of them as I bet they are worthless and subscribe mine:)
Regards.
Posted something similar to this yesterday...how do we subscribe to so much crap?
Perfect Article, I really hope that the "A-list" manages to see this one.
Yeah, too much "blogging about blogging about blogging" as someone already said last week.
"Perhaps I am but I’m sure that I’m not alone."
Nope, you're definitely not alone. Like I wrote somewhere else, I recommend just unsubscribing from them all. 99% noise 1% sound isn't good especially when I'm trying to get some work done inspite of the fact that I don't wanna work.
My problem is that I don't think anything I've subscribed to is crap at all - and I devour everything written on this subject here that we enjoy... but what to do when there is so little time for devouring and so much to stay on top of? I can't bring myself to unsubscribe from anything - I guess I can just keep sleeping less and less :)
Well, I admit I miss several blogs, like Blue Hat SEO, but it was either that or blow hours/day just trying to find something good to read.
@Noobliminal - I did! I had a major purge and unsubscribed from loads of blogs. I then got all purge crazy and went through all my Twitter contacts removing anyone who was no longer active or just posted rubbish. I felt a lot better by the end of the day!
@Tony, a lot of the time I think the blogs started out good and gradually they run out of good stuff to say so you keep subscribing to them wondering if they're going to come up with the goods and its easy to kind of not notice if you just see one post a day. Because I had such a backlog, with many blogs having over 20 unread, it became glaringly obvious how bad a blog was when I could not find a single post to comment on or link to.
@TimDineen, I was like that too. I am fairly new to all this so I too am trying to soak up everything like a sponge but it was literally taking up hours of my day and it simply just wasn't paying off. I cant make a living by reading blogs so some had to go.
@cmiddlebrook: If you did not subscribe mine ... you still failed :)
No to be rude, but you know what's pointless? Complaining about the content in the feeds YOU voluntarily subscribe to. You aren't even the first person to post this to Sphinn. Seriously, if you don't like the content, change the channel, but posting junk about their being too much junk... Really?
@TheRealTerry, I had a similar comment on the blog. Good point, I was certain it would get brought up. The post was not so much a complaint as a heads up to bloggers that may not even realise that they could be boring their audience. Those feeds that had nothing but fluff did indeed get unsubscribed. Plus, I'll admit I dramatised it a little to try and get attention. Unfortunately it seems that the whiny posts get the clicks these days!