Thinking Aloud

I'm all over the map on the whole RSS news feeds phenomena. So much news right at your finger tips. And yet, it feels incredibly distracting and daunting. Plus I'm not really interested in most of it. So, I've just finished one week of zero news feeds and it was pretty good. As a matter of fact I didn't really miss it all that much, but surely total elimination of RSS feeds isn't the only way to avoid feeling like I'm constantly missing something. The entry 43folders.com

So, I'm trying out a new technique, the google reader folders approach first shown to me on 43folders.com in Organizing my feeds by their importance to me.

So my folders are
Freestuff – the place where I watch for free things offered locally that I might want
Can't Miss – Blogs of my friends
News – The News
Not News – Blogs that I read for general interest
Trivial – Blogs I should probably not be wasting my time on.

We've got a lot of choices these days about how you want to do things. It seems like with the blogging thing you can either choose to host it yourself and have all the headaches (and fun) of having your own server. Or you can go in for a hosted system like Blogger.com

Host it yourself.
Pros:
– complete control.
– use whatever software you like
– security is in your hands (this could be a con I suppose)
– you can always get at your data
– down time isn't some body elses fault

Cons:
– Down time is a lot more likely
– Stuck in THEIR software
– They can always shut you down
– Not as well indexed?