5 rules to avoid Feed/RSS spam

Since I moved my feeds from sage (a plugin for firefox) to google reader that's the first time I have no unread item! Hurra!

My rules of thumb to avoid being spam by feed:

1. Think twice before subscribing in the first place (the hardest rule in my case)
2. Unsubscribe when you don't even read the articles by only the titles
3. Unsubscribe when article is more than 20 lines (I make exceptions)
4. Unsubscribe when feed is never updated
5. Unsubscribe when too much posts (more than 10 per month)
   

Examples: I removed Seth Godin because of rule #2&5, Joel on Software because of #2.

I'm considering removing TheServerSide because 90% is just:

"xxx framework has release 0.2.0.4.8RC1 codename: stupid-animal"

Too bad this post is too long (rule #3) ;)

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WTF ?

Shame on me!
I have to admit it took me really long before figuring out what those pictures meant ;)

You will need this site to find the answer.

source: Ugo

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What I'm reading

I've recently started to use Google Reader Shared items. When ever I found something interesting, no matter what subject, I add it to my shared feed. You can take a look or/and subscribe to it ;)

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New Blogger skin

I moved to the new blogger template system. Unfortunately I didn't find any that really please me :(
The new web2.0 interface is cool but editing the html is harder now. Too bad I found those spiderman blogger skins but they are for the old blogger template system... You can still hack your way thought (see the readme file with it) but I don't want to

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