It's time once again to prune the RSS vine and eliminate some noise in my life. I have a couple of categories I stay current with every day, but several have been piling up, which makes it easy to determine whether feeds in those backlogged categories stay on the tree. I just scrolled through the last 78 post subjects for the last two months of a certain developer's feed and didn't find a single item I wanted to read or felt that I needed to read. Delete.
Ken Robertson said something interesting the other night, how he avoids bloggers who post too much. Ken deleted Scoble and a few other active blogs based on post volume, and he's absolutely right that this is an accurate measure of a blog's value. If you have to scroll through 50 posts on a regular basis to find one post that's of personal worth you have to weigh the time investment spent scrolling through the other 49 posts.
Several inactive feeds are being lopped-off, too, whether they're in my Buds category or any other, and whether the bloggers are friends in the real world or not. A blog that isn't updated in three months isn't a blog, it's a dead feed. Delete.
Back to pruning.