I guess there are tons of talented and fun people out in blog land that I love to read. :)
Every so often I pare down the list. It is a hard thing to do. I don't want to offend anyone by dropping off their readers list, but I have to be realistic in what I can handle time wise. If a blogger has a thousand readers, they probably won't miss me, so I will bookmark them to check in on every so often. But most of the blogs I read are smaller, like 300 readers or (way) less. And most of them I love to read, so it's not so easy to cut anyone.
What to do, what to do...
Anyway, I backed up my list by going to my dashboard and copying and pasting the list into a notebook document, then into a word document. (Word had a memory hissy fit, probably about all the behind the scenes coding, so I did notebook first.) I made a table and cut out the junk and now I have a list of all the URLS of my favorite blogs.
Later today I am going to go through Google Reader and add subscriptions to the non blogger blogs that I follow with Friend Connect. Hopefully that will solve the issue.
Great idea! Thanks for the tip.
ReplyDeleteIt gets like that doesn't it and it's really hard to keep up with the reading list sometimes... I narrowed mine down (and as you say, feel a little guilty about unfollowing people, but interests change and therefore your reading list also changes). I have my reading list feeding into a separate rss reader as I find that easier than the dashboard reader but your idea is very smart. I follow so few blogs (really just the ones on my blogroll in the sidebar) that I know them all and can google them if I ever lost them somehow -, I have to be realistic about how much time I have and I like to spend the time I reading my handful of inspirational friends :-)
ReplyDeleteWow this is so clever..need to do this myself. Thanks for showing us how you stay organized. :)
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