I stopped using a news aggregator (RSS reader) a month or so ago. It was refreshing to let go of a daily routine that I’m not sure accomplished much.
However, there are several blogs that I still like to read, and I just make sure that I visit them every few days. I also use Techmeme to keep abreast of any really important news. I figure whatever I don’t hear through word-of-mouth, twitter, and Techmeme, isn’t worth knowing.
Today I took one extra step that I think plants the nail in the blogging coffin: I added my favorite blog’s feed to Twitter (that would be BoingBoing). I’ve noticed that I’ve been missing a few too many gems recently, so I googled for “boingboing twitter,” and discovered they already have their own Twitter account.
So that’s the end of the news aggregator for me.
