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Loading ...When monitoring rss-feeds in a reader, here’ a take on keeping your inbox to the internet clear, while trying to keeping up to speed in your limited time.
Instantaneous abort
- Sites with excessive ads (a discrete ad in the lower right column is OK though).
- Anything containing the words ‘affiliate’, ‘home business’, ‘money’, ‘free’, … It’s not all bad, but statistically, it has a much lower quality content share.
- If any pop-up box moves in.
- If a clear summary is absent in your reader, ditch it. Probably it’s a machine-generated spam blog or a link farm.
- If a post is excessively short (less than 100 words)
Tier 2
- Stop reading list posts.
- Skip posts with lame openings. The article may get better, but if you’re pressed for time, why take the risk? In any case, there is abundant content for your very limited time.
- Check the source. The reason I need an ‘instantaneous abort’ mechanism is because I’m monitoring search terms from Google’s blogsearch as rss-feeds. This is a very powerful method not to miss anything, but produces a lot of low-quality content as well. Separating out known quality sources in a separate folder helps a lot.
If it still doesn’t suffice
In this case, you’ll need to qualify sources, and let them only in after they meet your stringent criteria. If you’re disappointed (once or a couple of times), be ruthless to wield them out. Your view on your segment will no longer be panoramic, but you can be more confident not to waste your limited time.
Addendum February 16
Especially for this month, but probably beyond, avoid anything containing the word ‘viral’, and if you’re based in the USA, anything with the word ‘recession’.
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