Matt Brubeck

In an attempt to waste less time on the computer, I'm going on an information diet. I unsubscribed from all high-traffic mailing lists and most high-traffic web feeds. I love Google Reader's "trends" page, which ranks feeds by number of updates, and makes it easy to unsubscribe quickly. It also lets me see my progress:

(The really low days in the graph are the weekend, when most sites I read don't publish anything new.)

I moved some of the high-traffic feeds to a private Planet Venus page. Now I can check them if I have nothing better to do, but if I ignore them they'll just fall off the bottom of the page instead of piling up in my "unread" queue.