Monday, April 25, 2011

Cleaning up my RSS Feeds

It's spring time, and it's time for some cleaning. Let's start with the most bothersome: my computer. Let's keep it small and start with RSS feeds. As it stands, my RSS feed has 23 sources.

Twenty. Three.

I should not have that many feeds, and after Gizmodo's undying need to post irrelevant shit, reposts of sister-site stories that have nothing to do with gadgets, their baby-sized posts of one or two sentences with a link to their source (pretty much a Twitter-esque post), or just overall debacles, I've decided to clean things up a bit.

That, and I'm sick of sorting through 300 stories a day when I get home from work, as well as my annual trip to New Jersey for Bamboozle is this weekend, I wanna keep my nightly tech splurges back in the hotel room to a minimum, and focused more on pizza, beer and playing caps.

As you can see to the left, this is a representation of my RSS feeds, courtesy of Reeder, my default choice of RSS feeders. As above, I have 23 feeds. Dropping down to 20 is ideal. 15 would be great. But where to start...

First to go is the obvious: Gizmodo. I only started following them during their iPhone 4 "coverage" around this time last year. That's a given. They have just under a quarter of a million subscribers, according to Google Reader (probably due in part to people like me, who started following them during the aforementioned time frame), so me leaving won't hurt. However, I suggest you do the same if you feel their quality waning on you.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

[REVIEW] A Lot of Games, Volume 2, Part 3

Look familiar, right? You're looking at a series of six posts in the second volume where I gather together a bunch of games I haven't talked about, write mini-reviews on them, and serve them straight to your noggin. Sure, they may not get the attention they deserve, but I get my point across fairly well. This time, I start way back in September and work my way up until early March. We're looking at a solid 24 games to be reviewed here. Be sure to brush up on the Review FAQ to make sure you understand my scoring before you whirl-up a bitch-fest.

Again, again, more reviews. This time, we've got a few sequels, a collection of games and zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. Let's do this.