I gave up 70 blogs for Lent, and I don't want them back

The number of blogs I read is always on the rise. Occasionally I go through and prune my reading list. I rarely unsubscribe from bad blogs; that would be much easier. Instead it's the much harder job of separating the best blogs from the good ones.

Before Lent I decided that I needed to take radical action. I unsubscribed to some 70 blogs. I still have them stored and can add them back anytime I want. But it's freeing to only have about 30 to keep up with now.

I keep hearing of people who only read 3 or 4, and they don't seem to be any worse off than I am. I don't want to go back to 100+ blogs I'm following. What's your ideal number?

P.S. A good and related post: A Few Reasons Why You May Want to Stop Reading My Blog by Justin Buzzard

Comments

[Rev. Mike]

I subscribed to a couple of hundred feeds. Hard to say how many of those are blogs. I easily scan the titles of anywhere between 500 and 1,000 articles and read maybe 20 of them in a day.

[george]

I read 3 or 4 and everyone once in a while I'll read Bene's :) Going back to your post on it being a waste of time. If we were to consider how much time we spend online reading stuff vs how much time we spend in actually reaching out to people with the Good News, I know I'm convicted.