Opportunity costs of subscribing to blogs
In my RSS reader, I put blogs in two categories — “must read” and “other”. The former contains a dozen or so great blogs that I try to read or all or almost all posts. The latter contains dozens more blogs that I don’t attempt to keep up with, but just scan randomly for interesting posts.
Even though I don’t attempt to keep up with every blog I subscribe to, there’s still an opportunity cost associated with subscribing to a blog: Doing so reduces the probability that I’ll read an interesting post on another blog.
Thus my strategy is: Subscribe to any blog that looks interesting, but also unsubscribe those that turn out not to be so interesting.
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I like your blog, your topics, and your writing style. Interesting. I do write one also but potentially for a narrow audience, since I write full-blown articles. Check it out if you have time.
http://www.rogueeconomistrants.blogspot.com
Great points. I struggle with this myself. Several times/week I add a few feeds and prune a few that don’t pan out for me. But I’m hanging on to 26econ. ;-)