More Productivity

With the assistance of my intervention specialist, Mark Teppo, I am weeding out my RSS feeds. I'm trying to cut down on the time suck they've become. Trying to cut down the repetition that I'm faced with every time I open up my feed reader. So, to that end, I have unsubscribed to the following feeds (and some others):

BoingBoing
Lifehacker
EW Popwatch
Best Week Ever
The Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator
Arflovers
Hobotopia
Blog Maverick
io9
Bookslut

I've also deleted my Bloglines account. I'm not stopping reading feeds, far from it. I got rid of the ones that were the most time-consuming. I have some new projects* starting, and the feeds listed above are not related to my projects. I still subscribe to 340 feeds (down from almost 400 when I started). However, the new posts on the feeds deleted is about double that of those I kept. I'm keeping my eye on Resource Shelf, LISNews.org, Sugar Frosted Goodness, Warren Ellis, and others.

None of these sites were easy to let go as I enjoy reading them. I've learned quite a few things from LifeHacker that I treasure. BoingBoing never failed to entertain or educate me. But they all took up time that I need. Plus, many of the feeds I'm still reading often point to the feeds I deleted.
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*One that will require me to be reading feeds in order to it properly.