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News Home Archive Lifehack.org</h3> <subtitle type="text">Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks</subtitle> <updated>2008-04-21T14:04:55Z</updated> <generator uri="http://wordpress.org/" version="2.5">WordPress</generator> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.lifehack.org" /> <id>http://www.lifehack.org/feed/atom</id> <link rel="self" href="http://www.lifehack.org/feed/" type="application/atom+xml" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>71799</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://www.feedburner.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><feedburner:browserFriendly>This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.</feedburner:browserFriendly><entry> <author> <name>Dustin Wax</name> <uri>http://www.dwax.org</uri> </author> <title type="html">Do You Read Too Many Blogs?</h3> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LifeHack/~3/274719531/do-you-read-too-many-blogs.html" /> <id>http://www.lifehack.org/?p=5521</id> <updated>2008-04-19T17:14:18Z</updated> <published>2008-04-21T14:00:22Z</published> <category scheme="http://www.lifehack.org" term="Featured" /><category scheme="http://www.lifehack.org" term="Productivity" /><category scheme="http://www.lifehack.org" term="blog" /><category scheme="http://www.lifehack.org" term="reading" /><category scheme="http://www.lifehack.org" term="rss" /><category scheme="http://www.lifehack.org" term="time-management" /> <link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/do-you-read-too-many-blogs.html#comments" thr:count="19" /> <link rel="replies" type="appication/atom+xml" href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/do-you-read-too-many-blogs.html/feed/atom" thr:count="19" /> <thr:total>19</thr:total> <content type="html"><div class="bigphoto"><img src="http://www.lifehack.org/wp-content/files/2008/04/20080419-bored.png" alt="Are You Reading Too many Blogs?" title="20080419-bored" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5522" /></div> <p>Ades of AdesBlog.com has a theory: that <a href="http://www.adesblog.com/2008/04/18/top-bloggers-do-not-read-blogs/">top bloggers don’t read other people’s blogs</a>. To test his theory, he asked several big-name bloggers — <a href="http://techcrunch.com/">Michael Arrington</a>, <a href="http://www.problogger.net">Darren Rowse</a>, <a href="http://www.shoemoney.com/">Jeremy Schoemaker</a>, and <a href="http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/">Yaro Starak</a> — about their blog-reading habits. Except for Darren Rowse, they all said they read few or no blogs; Rowse said he subscribes to 700 but only skims the whole list occasionally — there are about 50 he looks at on a daily basis.</p> <p>This is far from an exhaustive sample, but it’s got me wondering: how do you know when you’re reading too many blogs? I can’t imagine dropping blog-reading entirely — I get too much useful information, both for my professional life and my personal life, to consider blog-reading a total waste of time. On the other hand, though, do I read too many (I’m subscribed to 295)? Should I be more selective than I already am — or should I have a better system for processing the ones I do read? </p> <h2>Pros and Cons of Blog Reading</h2> <p>There are lots of good reasons to read blogs, including:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Inspiration:</strong> Reading blogs gives me ideas that I can use or build on in my own work.</li> <li><strong>Keeping up with current events:</strong> Since local news is useless, and cable news only slightly less so, blogs are often where I learn about the most important news of the day. I also learn of important news that the regular news outlets aren’t even covering (or are covering badly).</li> <li><strong>The pulse of the times:</strong> As someone with a professional interest (as both an anthropologist and a writer) in how people and society act, reading blogs offers me insight into the way people see and react to the world around them.</li> <li><strong>Things I wouldn’t think to ask:</strong> While I am an adept Googler when I need answers to some pressing question, a lot of time I’ve learned things from blogs I wouldn’t have Googled because I didn’t even know I didn’t know them. For example, I learned this year that I can deduct mileage between my home office and my classrooms, since I don’t have an office on campus.</li> <li><strong>Entertainment:</strong> I find reading a strong writer’s thoughts on the topic of their expertise a far more entertaining prospect than watching 22 minutes of sit-com pablum (with 8 more minutes of commercial nonsense).</li> </ul> <p>Are those pros balanced by the cons, though? The negative side of blog-reading includes:</p> <ul> <li><strong>The echo-chamber effect:</strong> I read blogs that, for one reason or another, I like, which means it’s possible that I’m hearing viewpoints and opinions that resonate well with my own to the exclusion of others. To be honest, I don’t think this is a big problem, since blogs aren’t the only medium through which I engage with the world, but it’s something to think about.</li> <li><strong>Time consumption:</strong> I’m not really sure how much time I spend reading blogs every day. An hour in the morning and again in the evening seems about right for most days. I that time that could be better used for other things?</li> <li><strong>A sense of urgency: </strong>I sometimes feel pressure to go through more posts, because even a day or two of scant reading leaves my Google Reader inbox at “1000+”. A thousand of <em>anything</em> seems like a lot of work to do — am I setting myself up with a great deal of unnecessary stress and anxiety?</li> <li><strong>The <em>other</em> echo-chamber effect:</strong> There’s only so much news in any niche, so when something noteworthy happens, chances are several sites will end up running the same story with only slight differences. I can either spend time reading each story to make sure I don’t miss any subtle detail, or skip them (which also takes time, and may mean I miss some key detail). </li> <li><strong>Headlines that don’t pay off:</strong> You can process a lot of RSS feeds in very little time if you just look at headlines and delete anything that doesn’t look promising. There are two problems with this:</li> </ul> <ul> <li><em>Lots of bloggers are better headline writers than they are post writers. </em>They know “10 Ways to Be Sexier” will attract readers, but only know 3 good ways to be sexier. </li> <li><em>Lots of other bloggers are better post writers than headline writers.</em> Their incredibly insightful posts are given useless headlines like “I hadn’t thought of it like that…” and “Another Story I Like”. </li> <h2> <ul> </ul> <ul></ul> </h2> </ul> <h2>Developing a Blog Reading System</h2> <p>One way to deal with some of these blog-reading downsides would be to change how I organize my RSS feeds. Currently, they’re organized by topic — I have a set of feeds for “productivity”, another on “writing”, a third on “education”, and so on.There are a few topics I try to read at least partially every day, and some I only read when I get around to it. But maybe I should adopt a system I’ve seen some others use, categorizing by priority? </p> <p>Like this:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Daily reads:</strong> Top authorities in their niche; the top 10 or so blogs worth looking at every day.</li> <li><strong>Weekly reads:</strong> Strong blogs that post less frequently or post stuff I really want to spend some time on, so I could review them on my day off and not worry about rushing through them.</li> <li><strong>Occasional reads: </strong>Blogs on topics I enjoy reading about but which aren’t essential to my day-to-day life. To read whenever I have free time.</li> <li><strong>Probation:</strong> For new subscribes while I figure out a) whether I really want to give them my attention, and b) how high a priority I should make them.</li> </ol> <p>I’m not especially thrilled at the prospect of re-tagging all my feeds in Google Reader, but maybe that’s what it takes to make sure that I’m not wasting my time on unessential reading when I could be doing something more important.</p> <h2>What about you?</h2> <p>I’d be interested in knowing how other people handle their blog-reading. Are Arrington and the others mentioned above anomalies? Do you read a lot of blogs? How many? Do you have a system for limiting the time you spend reading blogs? Do you not have one and feel like you do? And while we’re on the topic, what blogs do you consider “essential reading”? </p> <hr/><em>Dustin M. Wax is a contributing editor and project manager at lifehack.org. He is also the creator of <a href="http://www.writerstechnology.com">The Writer's Technology Companion</a>, a site devoted to the tools of the writing trade. When he's not writing, he teaches anthropology and women's studies in Las Vegas, NV. His personal site can be found at <a href="http://www.dwax.org">dwax.org</a>.</em></p><p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/?p=5521&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_5521" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Bookmark or Share this with a friend!</a> </p><h3>Related Posts</h3><ul class="related_post"><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/whats-missing-in-productivity-today.html" title="What’s Missing in Productivity Today?">What’s Missing in Productivity Today?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/productivity-maybe-but-for-what-purpose.html" title="Productivity maybe . . . but for what purpose?">Productivity maybe . . . but for what purpose?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/making-fake-deadlines-real-completing-projects-with-self-assigned-deadlines.html" title="Making Fake Deadlines Real: Completing Projects with Self-Assigned Deadlines">Making Fake Deadlines Real: Completing Projects with Self-Assigned Deadlines</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/do-you-really-need-to-get-yet-more-things-done.html" title="Do you REALLY need to get yet more things done?">Do you REALLY need to get yet more things done?</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/how-not-to-impose-productivity-systems.html" title="How Not to Impose Productivity Systems On Others">How Not to Impose Productivity Systems On Others</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/my-struggles-with-email-triage.html" title="My Struggles With Email Triage">My Struggles With Email Triage</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/6-rules-to-work-less-and-get-more-accomplished.html" title="6 Rules to Work Less and Get More Accomplished">6 Rules to Work Less and Get More Accomplished</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/10-ways-to-conquer-boredom-and-feeling-too-busy.html" title="10 Ways to Conquer Boredom (and Feeling Too Busy)">10 Ways to Conquer Boredom (and Feeling Too Busy)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/eight-tips-to-find-your-information-oasis.html" title="Eight Tips to Find Your Information Oasis">Eight Tips to Find Your Information Oasis</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/overcome-procrastination-once-and-for-all.html" title="Overcome Procrastination Once and For All">Overcome Procrastination Once and For All</a></li><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/are-you-late.html" title="Are you late? 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We’re using it every moment, consciously or not, as we perceive the world and interpret it based on our memories and experiences, or as we look for the car keys, trying to recall where, exactly, was the last place they were seen?</p> <p>It’s no small wonder that this part of our brain would fall prey to such inefficiency and failure, given the busy pace of Western life and the constant barrage of information that the hippocampus must somehow keep up with. At the same time, how can we fall complacent when such an essential thing as memory doesn’t work properly? Many lifehackistas and personal development fans spend hours, weeks, months and years dedicated to other areas of their lives while they completely ignore the memory.</p> <p>You should up your standards. Your memory should be a finely-tuned, working piece of equipment that you can depend on. So where do we start?</p> <h2>Clear Your Mind</h2> <p>Some of our memory inefficiency is no doubt caused by the clutter in our heads and the ceaseless stimulation of our senses and the barrage of information we so often complain about. The other part of poor recall is inefficiency in the way we store information—much like a hard drive, I suppose, where write speeds can be affected by how much the drive is trying to do at any one time, or completely halted when the drive is full, and can be slowed to a halt by inefficient methods of accessing that data.</p> <strong>Meditation</strong></p> <p>Meditation is a scientifically proven way to clear your mind and relieve stress. If you find your mind too cluttered to recall important—or even not-so-important—facts throughout the day, adopt a regular meditation habit and reap the health benefits that come with it.</p> <p>Meditation goes something like this: find a quiet environment. Focus on your breathing. Quit thinking and forget about the world. Practice until you can actually forget about the world and focus on your breathing.</p> <strong>GTD</strong></p> <p>As soon as I mentioned cluttered minds, you knew I was going to mention it. The <em>Getting Things Done </em>system is perfect for clearing your head because it eliminates the need to remember. When you’re not trying to hold on to and juggle so much data all day, and you release the stress of trying to retain so much information, that’s probably when you’ll find yourself able to remember everything easily!</p> <p>If you just use the info-dumping strategy of GTD, then you stand to gain a lot of mental RAM back. Simply sit down in the mornings—and in the evenings, especially if you have insomnia—and rattle out everything you need to do or consider onto a piece of paper, Word document, task manager, or whatever takes your fancy. The important thing is to remove it from your brain and free up attention for things that don’t need to be at the forefront of your brain.</p> <h2>Fuel Your Brain</h2> <p>A starving brain is just like a starving person: it won’t work well. Give your hippocampus the things it needs to operate smoothly.</p> <strong>Exercise<br /> </strong></p> <p>One of the best things you can do for your memory is get exercise. I’ve put this under the <em>Fuel Your Brain</em> section because the reason exercise works so well is that it pumps oxygen to your head. Spend three hours a week walking, running, swimming or doing some form of aerobic exercises. If you already have an exercise regime that doesn’t involve aerobic exercise, you’ll need to add at least three hours per week to get the benefits of exercise on your memory.</p> <strong>Diet</strong></p> <p>The Virgina Woolfe quote is good advice: “<em>One cannot think well, love well or sleep well if one has not dined well.</em>” Of course, if you know anything of Woolfe’s life, you know she’s not an expert on mental health, but in this case, she was right.</p> <p>Just like if you failed to exercise, if you don’t eat well, your brain won’t work well. Quit snacking on chips and eat a variety of healthy foods. Avoid processed grains like bread and white rice. What you’re aiming for here is maximum nutrients so your neurons can fire and regenerate at will; fruits, vegetables, and “brain foods” (such as anything containing omega 3 fatty acids—sardines, for one) should comprise the bulk of any intellectual’s diet.</p> <strong>Herbs, supplements and drugs</strong></p> <p>My pregnant wife is religious in her consumption of folic acid supplements every day, and apparently it’s a good idea for husbands to join in, especially if you’re the type who forgets to do the dishes. With all that folic acid she’s taking, she’s sure not forgetting.</p> <p>B vitamins are very important to healthy brain function. Not only will they give your memory a boost, but they’ll reduce stress too—our prime contributor to poor recall.</p> <p>As far as drugs go, I wouldn’t take any, but there is one you can boot. Smoking decreases blood flow to the brain, stopping oxygen from getting in there and hence making your prior attempts to rectify this problem useless</p> <h2>Memory aids</h2> <p>There is nothing wrong with aiding your memory with a shopping list or a mnemonic. If you need to remember that Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit to help you learn to read music notation, then you shouldn’t be ashamed if it makes your life easier—just be glad you’re not the other guy who’s trying to memorize by rote.</p> <p>There are plenty of systems and techniques that fall under the heading of memory aids. Some are as simple as writing a note on your hand or keeping a shopping list. Some aren’t—plenty of Tony Buzan-style techniques are all <a href="http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html">across the web</a>.</p> <hr/><em>Offering a unique perspective and insight on productivity based on his experience as a blogger, writer, musician, family man and manager, Joel Falconer has been published online and off, and brings to Lifehack's readers critical news and practical advice you can use to make life more liveable.</em></p><p class="akst_link"><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/?p=5531&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_5531" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Bookmark or Share this with a friend!</a> </p><h3>Related Posts</h3><ul class="related_post"><li><a href="http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/top-5-ways-to-double-your-energy-without-caffeine.html" title="Top 5 Ways to Double your Energy (Without Caffeine!)">Top 5 Ways to Double your Energy (Without Caffeine!)</a></li><li><a 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