10 Tips to have an Effective Blog Reading and blogger.

A useful post from Nev n Dave website, for an effective blog reading and a good way to let blogger do what is the best.

* Before going any further investigate different blog readers - if you’re going to spend time reading blogs, use the right tools for the job. Different blog aggregators engender different usage styles - find one that is as efficient as possible. We use Bloglines for a number of reasons outlined below these tips.

* Try resizing your browser or news reader to make the text appear in a thin column about 8 words wide so that you can speed read it.

* Before attempting to change your habits, get a handle on your addiction - record how much time you spend reading each of your blogs or blog groups.

* Now set time limits and times when you’ll read blogs - and stick to them. For example, 12:00-12:30 and 3:30-4:00. Set up something to enforce the limit - perhaps an alarm, or tell a friend/colleague you’ll buy them a dvd if they catch you reading blogs outside the time limits.

* Limit how many feeds you subscribe to on a particular topic. If you add a new feed, strongly consider deleting one of your old ones.

* Periodically test your feeds. Leave a feed unread for a week. Then spend some time doing a catchup and ask yourself “was that really worth my time?”

* Organise your categories not by topic (tech, java, games, news etc) but by importance and/or reading frequency.

Example categories:
Important/Must Read
Daily - blogs you check daily
Every monday - blogs you check every monday
Every friday
Weekly
Monthly
etc

* Add a ‘quarantine’ category for new blogs that you’re adding to your aggregator. After a week or so, decide whether you really want to keep that blog and move it to the appropriate category.

* Add an ‘ignore’ category for blogs that you no longer read - this helps you remember your decision. If you ever come across the blog in the future and think “ooh, I’ll add that to my aggregator”, you’ll see that it’s something you decided wasn’t worth your time.

* Consider subscribing to only a subset of a person’s blog. Someone may have interesting things to say about your favorite topic but do you really want to know about their thanksgiving dinner as well? Many bloggers tag their posts into categories and it’s often possible to get category-specific feeds.

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A great tips that offer to blog reader and also webmaster of blog.

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