Farewell to blogs

I've mentioned before that I read far too many blogs and am never caught up. This morning my dear spouse mentioned that same, but in a not too patient tone. Less of a 'how do you do it' and more of a 'what the hell is wrong with you' sort of question. I took a look at the blog list and have deleted several, for several different reasons. Herewith, my blog RIF list.

5ives
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/5ives
This one was a sort of Top Five list, that I liked, but is hardly ever updated. I'm hoping that not tracking it will make my feed reader more efficient.

Awful Plastic Surgery
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AwfulPlasticSurgery
This was a lot of fun when it started, but recently he has included a lot of before and after pictures where I cannot see any differences, lots of 'this nose job is awful' when it looks pretty good to me, and I just cannot forgive him for posting pictures of Heidi Fleiss twice in one month, no matter WHAT she may have done to her face.

Hot Chicks with Doucebags
http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/atom.xml
I really loved this blog for the longest time. I still think it has one of the greatest titles ever. But there is only so much Ed Hardy wearing muscle headed douchiness that a person can look at, and I passed that threshold a while back. Farewell Douchebags. Farewell Hotties.

CoffeeNow
(dang it, lost the link and can't find it now)
This was a personal blog that just never got updated, so I didn't really lose anything by deleting it.

A Day in the Life
http://purpleflarp.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
I love this gal, but she doesn't write much, and I see her stuff other places, so I'm ditching this blog about her kids.

New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/feed/feeds
This one was just a little too lightweight for me. I added 'Bad Astronomy' to replace it. Not that I am into astronomy, but it's a better blog.


And a couple of blogs that I haven't deleted yet, but are on the bubble.


Said In Bed
http://saidinbed.com/feed
This is consistently hilarious and cringeworthy, but unless my reader is broken, hasn't been updated in over a month. It used to be once or twice a day.

Polygamy
http://feeds.sltrib.com/mngi/rss/CustomRssServlet/297/200968.xml
Brooke Adam's blog. I'm just not quite as interested as I was, and the feed software she uses keeps updating entries whenever there is a comment. Which is annoying. But it's low traffic, so I'll keep it for a while.

Mental Floss
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/feed/atom/
I'm always behind a few hundred posts. Clearly I don't care all that much.

Urlesque
http://www.urlesque.com/rss.xml
Same as Mental Floss. I'm always behind.

Auto Blog
http://feeds.autoblog.com/weblogsinc/autoblog
This one hurts. I joined it so that I would have something to talk about with my sons, but they do about 20 new posts a day, and who has time for that? Plus, the site feed is slow, so it's kinda painful to catch up.

Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
I've mentioned this one before. I'm currently 1182 posts behind on it. But the stuff that I do read is just so doggone interesting, I can't bring myself to pull the trigger on this.


So that's the big blog roundup. I discovered after my last spring cleaning that the pain of deleting a feed only lasts a day or two, but the pain of unread posts is constant. I think I've done the right thing.