I read 300+ blog posts a day thanks to Google Reader. It\u2019s my homepage. Every time I open my browser I\u2019m bombarded with new postings. I\u2019ve done this for almost a year now. Before that I visited the individual blogs.<\/p>\n
Jakob Lodwick makes the following point in a post today:<\/p>\n
This urge to make everything automatically syndicated and aggregated into custom streams does have a trade-off. You\u2019re trading identity for efficiency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This provides a few shocking realizations for me.<\/p>\n
1. All that I\u2019ve done online lately is consume and reorganize. I don\u2019t create enough. Sure, I\u2019m creating right now. But, it\u2019s not enough. This is partially a result of being in law school, which has significantly squashed the time I have to think about meaningful creative endeavors. Or even read a novel.<\/p>\n
2. In the past I\u2019ve spent hours modifying the look and feel of my other blog – Yugflog.com – so that it is appealing and appropriate to the subject matter. If all of that was never seen because it was only read through RSS feeds, that would be a lot of wasted work on my part.<\/p>\n
So what? While the 2D web-space is becoming increasingly visually stimulating and full of rich content, my way of dealing with it is to reduce it to uniform text in a linear stream. Not only that, but no one blog, micro-blog, tumblelog, video site, or website stands out. All of the information is slurred together.<\/p>\n
I should care more about who is saying what.<\/p>\n
I should care more about what it looks like.<\/p>\n
I should care more about giving back as much as I take in a qualitative, not quantitative, manner.<\/p>\n
To do that I\u2019m going to stop reading my RSS feeds every spare second. I\u2019m going to evaluate what I can do with my time that would be either (a) more productive or (b) more creative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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