I prefer low-activity blogs to ultra-noisy ones

Yesterday, Ian Landsman mentioned he cleaned up his subscribed feeds list, partly because it contained too many inactive blogs.

What's the problem with being subscribed to too many feeds ? Cluttered blogs list ? No way: Just create a folder with your low-activity blogs and you won't see them again unless you want to.

The real problem is you get drowned into posts and miss the important ones. Kind of yet another corollary of the principle that says that too much information kills information.

Now people who don't post could hardly be convinced of cluttering posts lists, could they ? On the other hand, they might be the kind of people who post when they have something to say! That's why I keep them.

At the other extremity of the spectrum, there are these evangelists who are paid to post. Some of them are interesting people. But still, even the most interesting people don't have 10 interesting things to say every day. In the mean time, _they_ are responsible for the cluttering of blog readers. That's why I've long unsubscribed from people such as Scoble and Sells (Regarding Chris, I hugely prefer to read his books!). The sad thing is that I realize I'm losing interesting news. But I'm just not ready to pay the price.

(That said, even after his cleanup, Ian still still subscribes to more feeds than me ;-)