digitaldust

I’ve nearly caught up with the rest of the web universe.

Dude, that is so yesterday afternoon, about 3pm.

Yours,

Rik

—–Original Message—–
From: Dan Dixon [mailto:dan@headshift]
Sent: 03 May 2006 14:35
To: headshift1
Subject: web design death clock

http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/05/01/the-web-design-trend-obituary-death- clock/

Partly because of a cunning trick I’ve implemented in my RSS feeds. With a little inspiration from a friend of Al’s, I’ve gone for a much simpler and, I’ve now found, much more effective set of classifications.

1. Good
2. Possibly Good
3. Possibly Crap
4. Crap I have to subscribe to for some reason but cant be asked reading

In one avian bird flu swoop I’ve made my feeds manageable. Now I only subscribe to 99 feeds (excluding my flickr feeds, that would at least double it), so maybe I can’t complain compared to other information junkies around who do 3-5 times that much. However I don’t inject meth-amphetamine into my eyeballs like I catch some other people around the office doing.

I went from thousands of unread items to less than 100. the other thing I noticed was that all the my “Good” blogs had relatively low posting rates (except WMMNA and frankly I have no idea how she does it).

I’ve also noticed that the stuff I read is the good stuff and I skim the headings of the “Crap I have to….”, to stay peripherally across various business and pleasure things I simply must stay across. Both of which are relatively low volume.

Apologies for the meta/geek/lifehack stuff. These things are nearly as bad as the proverbial cheese sandwich post.

PS: Rik is reading this post before I’ve posted it. We’re trapped in a Xeno’s paradox of web awareness. But it’s better to be Achilles than the tortoise - even if he is left behind he’s got great abs.