{"id":1077,"date":"2007-09-11T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/c02accb783615827ed523e76607c7446"},"modified":"2007-09-11T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T18:19:25","slug":"syndicated-feeds-can-be-a-time-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Syndicated feeds can be a time killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I'm a bit of a feed reading fanatic. I have my own software to pick up the feeds and, at my worst, monitored more than 400 individual feeds. The feed reading software I wrote enables me to view my feeds in groups, as well as individual feeds, and as a sequential, date ordered, list of stories. Not only could I read the feeds in this organization, but I could also mark all of the items on screen as 'read'. <\/p>\n<p>That's fine, but to be honest, I found myself spending a long time just marking stories without reading them. Not because I wasn't interested, but because I didn't have time. Ultimately that meant I wasted almost as much time just clearing them out as I would have had I read them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=NuaD26\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=NuaD26\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/155146771\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit that I&#8217;m a bit of a feed reading fanatic. I have my own software to pick up the feeds and, at my worst, monitored more than 400 individual feeds. The feed reading software I wrote enables me to view my feeds in groups, as well as individual feeds, and as a sequential, date ordered, list of stories. Not only could I read the feeds in this organization, but I could also mark all of the items on screen as &#8216;read&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine, but to be honest, I found myself spending a long time just marking stories without reading them. Not because I wasn&#8217;t interested, but because I didn&#8217;t have time. Ultimately that meant I wasted almost as much time just clearing them out as I would have had I read them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=NuaD26\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=NuaD26\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/155146771\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}