Mission Impossible: Keeping up with the Web
30: the number of days I set to accomplish the mission.
158: the number of subscriptions in my Google Reader account.
0: the number of unread items I was hoping to reach at the end of the 30-day period.
3780: the number of items I read.
126: average number of items read per day.
255: the number of unread items at the end of the 30-day period.
Conclusion: Keeping up with the Web is impossible!
At first, it was quite easy, but things got complicated as I entered my final exams period. The whole thing fall apart after I spent an entire day without an Internet connection. I tried to make up in the last day, but after reading 316 items, I raised the white flag!
Lifehacker was (and still) the most frequently updated among my subscriptions with an average of 16.5 items/day. It is repeated in the list because I subscribed to their full feed recently.
What should I do now? Maybe I should organize the subscriptions according to their priority.
How about you? How many items do you read per day?
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16 articles a day? Hot damn. I have three feeds, but none of them give me 16 articles a day. One gives me an article a week, another an article every few days, and the last one gives perhaps 5 articles a day.
Giovanni Spina
February 10, 2008 at 5:08 pm
16 is nothing compared to the 40 articles that Engadget posts everyday!!
Now I have 198 subscriptions and 472 unread items, and it just keeps increasing!
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