Info packrat. I’m such a damn packrat. Before computers it was — and still is — paper. Articles, printouts, things I’m convinced I’ll need at some point and better file for future reference. Then, every now and again, I go back through the pile and alternate smacking myself on the head with throwing stuff away.
Bad blog habit. This is a habit I may never care enough about breaking to actually break, if only because it’s saved my tail quite a few times. I just should have also realized that my info-hoarding habit would extend into the 32 blogs I currently monitor. Of those 32 blogs, and I’ve had a Bloglines account only for a few months, I’ve saved over 600 posts. 600.
Or, to put it another way, too damn many.
At this point, I could start on a bulleted list of the top 10 ways you can reduce your blog clutter. I could throw in some snappy pictures from flicker, er, flcker, er, oh feck it. I could start punching out snappy little bold headlines.
But I’m not. I’m just going to go through my Bloglines, and delete anything that doesn’t make me pause over the delete key.
And maybe, just maybe, I’ll not packrat so many of these damn articles from here on out. Maybe. But I doubt it.
