Comments on: Time Management tips when writing multiple blogs

By: Mariano

Mariano — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:45:21 +0000

Great stuff. As I increase the number of my blogs I need to reorganize my time and change the way I blog constantly. Your way seems to be well thought but I think if email is the enemy, IMs are the atomic bomb for me, by far more time consuming…

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 21:39:11 +0000

To speed read faster, I often click on the Bloglines folder rather than read each feed individually. It saves a little on load time and wipes off a load of unread folders immediately!

Bizarrely, because blogging isn’t my primary money-spinner, I gained most productivity by moving Bloglines OFF my firefox homepage!

By: Pito Salas

Pito Salas — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 02:14:37 +0000

Check out: http://www.blogbridge.com/archives/2005/11/the_addictive_p.php – it turns out that BlogBridge, a product that I am working on, has a bunch of tools just to deal with this kind of problems:

- star ratings to let you say which of your feeds are most important to you
- filters to hide the less important feeds (but not delete them because you might need them later)
- SmartFeeds to cull good stuff out of those hidden feeds into one place without cluttering up your life
- Feed Cleanup Folder to specify criteria to delete the really useless feeds (like how often you look, how often they update, how many stars)

Check it out: http://www.blogbridge.com/archives/2005/11/the_addictive_p.php or try the application: http://www.blogbridge.com/install/stable/blogbridge.jnlp

By: ME

ME — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:25:46 +0000

I’m right with you, Duncan. As much as I like to start the morning with a nice slow read anc my coffee. It’s really the most uninterrupted time to write and think things through.

By: Satish Talim

Satish Talim — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:33:12 +0000

Very helpful. Already I am seeing the difference.

By: Ignat

Ignat — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:34:32 +0000

Great stuff. Organizing RSS feeds into folders is a huge time saver. I was getting pretty bugged out with constantly looking for news to post on my blogs. I guess I never figured out that organization can be a huge time saver.

By: Loren

Loren — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:33:05 +0000

Thanks Duncan. I need to cut down on the time I spend looking at ad revenue reports and referral stats too, seems like I’m logging in every 5 minutes to look for a golden egg.

By: Christina Jones

Christina Jones — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:29:50 +0000

Thanks Duncan-this is good time management information for anyone working on the www. BIG problem for me. I think I have the same email issues as you-I will try your advice. Thanks! :)

By: John Evans (SYNTAGMA)

John Evans (SYNTAGMA) — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:12:47 +0000

Snap! Duncan. I’ve had the same problem myself. In fact I posted a similar, but less informative, piece on my blog yesterday. Good advice, especially about feed readers. They can eat up your day. They’re not called “feeds” for nothing :-)