addi+ions blog: Insights from the Internet Obsessed

Life on the internet moves fast. Very Fast. In a couple years businesses can go from boom to bust and obscure technologies like AJAX can become the industry standard seemingly overnight. Keeping up with the wealth of new information has become a challenge for people, but syndicated feeds like ATOM and RSS can help reduce the clutter by only focusing on new or updated information and avoiding the rest. Even subscribing to 15-20 blogs can become a problem and the constant stream of unread items can become overwhelming.

The base problem is the large number of posts per day from first-movers. TechCrunch(~5/day), Engadget(~25/day), Lifehacker(~15/day), Mashable(~30/day). These Blogs and Websites are usually the first to break news in the blogosphere - which you don’t want to miss - but tend to post way too many items daily - which you can do without. Just Over the course of one week they would have published between 300-600 posts just between the 4 of them.
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