Tim Haines got me thinking as he often does with a comment to my Feed Pruning post the other evening, mentioning how he "blindly clicks through my Community Server posts" because more CS knowledge isn't useful to him right now. Tim will have to answer to the man in the Big Chair one day for not more aggressively pursuing CS knowledge, of course, but that's not the point. The point is that I don't want to give Tim a reason to consider pruning my feed! And for Tim and others like him who aren't into Community Server, a blog with 75% content about CS is a good reason to snip-snip.
So I'm going to be upgrading my DBVT RSS feed options. I'll be providing three feeds, I think. 1) The current feed with everything, 2) a CS-only feed, and 3) a feed containing everything BUT Community Server, categories like Daily Diary (my catch-all, everyday category), iPod and Dog, Nordic Track Reads, Geek Smatterings, .NET, CodeSmith and Future Thinking.
Wait a minute. Categories? As in "not tags," and only a few of them at that, not a sea of content tags with granularity and inter-relationships? For DBVT.COM, no. Not a judgment on tags versus categories, just how I organize my blog. I mean, heck, it's a personal blog; it's not a reference manual.
So be looking for Feed Options at DBVT.COM. My goal is to tailor my feeds to what best meets the needs of those who read it. And if I still lose Tim Haines, at least I tried. But I'll be bummed.