no groups. can't be bothered. there are only 24 entries in my OPML anyway. I had a massive bloodletting in the OPML file a month or so ago, because it was taking me AFD just to read the news.

First stage was to kill all the sites that put the same string in and . WTF is the point of having an RSS feed at all if you're going to do that? Sites like that are a shitload faster to read directly with a browser. Faster yet just to ignore them entirely, the worthwhile stuff will be carried by someone who actually publishes useful RSS.

Second stage was to eliminate all the industry pundit sites that serve as marketing tools for consultants; most of those are updated once every three months, max. Goodbye Alan Reiter, goodbye Loftesness.

Third stage was to eliminate just about everything that involved editorializing. Goodbye Whiner, goodbye Kos, goodbye Pirillo, goodbye jwz (actually I think jwz went in the first stage). I'm 44 years old, for God's sake, and I live in Tennessee. If I want to know what you think, I'll damn well email you and ask.

There's still quite a bit of redundancy among my 24 sources; further trimming is in order. Boing Boing is probably next to go. I added Gizmodo the other day, and most of what I liked about BB was the links to Gizmodo. NPR is turning into Radio Boing Boing anyway.

Whoops, two dead feeds. Down to 22. And WTF is Linux Journal doing there?