{"id":3727,"date":"2005-01-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/feeds-of-feeds-vs-individual-feeds\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T04:00:00","slug":"feeds-of-feeds-vs-individual-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/feeds-of-feeds-vs-individual-feeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeds of Feeds vs. Individual Feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pared my Bloglines subscriptions from a high of 154 to 148, and I&#8217;m feeling pretty good.  There were a few echo-chamber feeds (same info, different person) that needed to go, and I trimmed a few under-producing blogs (sorry, Textism, but you don&#8217;t write often enough to warrant the space).  I also replaced a few local news feeds with a <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.topix.net\/rss\/query?q=60613\">Topix search feed for Chicago<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t follow any Chicago news celebs, and this gets me a nice selection of local news.<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about my feed weeding.  Am I really reducing my local news redundancy by replacing individual feeds with an aggregator of news feeds?  The mix I&#8217;m looking for in my feed subscriptions is a nice selection of feeds on multiple topics that keep the overall number of things I read to a manageable level. I&#8217;ll keep the Topix feed if I find it gets me similar coverage as multiple local feeds for the same or lesser time committment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to pay particular attention to similar feeds in the future.  I want lots of coverage for a minimum time committment, but I also want to hear distinctive notes in that coverage.  How do other people approach the balance of their subscriptions?  Is anyone tilting one way versus the other for a reason? Aggregator feeds vs. individual site feeds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve pared my Bloglines subscriptions from a high of 154 to 148, and I&#8217;m feeling pretty good. There were a few echo-chamber feeds (same info, different person) that needed to go, and I trimmed a few under-producing blogs (sorry, Textism, but you don&#8217;t write often enough to warrant the space). I also replaced a few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steepedinthelore.bitingreviews.com\/steeped\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}