on saving internet stuff...

It's official, that I have way too many items in my Google Reader. I only started using feeds in December, and now I have at least an hour worth of reading every day. At first I rationalized the time I was spending as "me" time, to read up on news and design stuff, but there's so much that it's actually made me feel mentally exhausted to sort through. Usually I just end up deleting most of it, and I've even started removing feeds that have ended up being a bit of a disappointment (Architectural Digest comes to mind). There's also that nifty little "save for later" button, which I've used a bit too much, and now I have all sorts of random articles floating in there, things I thought I'd like to blog about... now some are 2 months old.

My bookmarks overfloweth with all kinds of stuff, half of which I have no idea what it is. I spent about 40 minutes tonight trying to make some sense of everything by trimming down information and filing, deleting things that I'll definitely never use. I feel like a kid with a messy room and no idea how to make progress getting it organized.

Then there's my Stumble account, which has so much stuff in it. With my bookmarks in such disarray, I've gotten to the point where I just add sites to my Stumble "I like it" page so I can go back later to check it out. Unfortunately, later never comes...

With more and more people writing blogs and having personal websites, I feel like there's no end in sight to the amount of material that will seem interesting enough for me to want to hold on to it. I think I need an internet detox program...