blogs I won’t read

I subscribe to 130 blogs. Most of those belong to people I know personally, the rest contain wonderful information on things like photography, graphic/web design, or things I deem funny.

Lately, since I don’t have Internet access at Sandia, I open up my Google Reader at local coffee shops to find an unattainable number of new items that need reading. In order to figuratively thumb through these blog entries in a timely fashion, it is necessary that I set up a sort of filtering system of which blogs I’ll read and which ones I’ll skip altogether. And so, I give you…

A list of blog posts that I’ll most certainly not read:

- Posts containing photos of your pregnant stomach – I just don’t care. I probably like you a whole stinkin’ lot, but I do not care to see how you’ve grown in the past 9 months. Not saying it isn’t a beautiful thing, just a thing I don’t care to see.

- Posts that require more than a few scrolls down to find the entry’s end – There are some exceptions to this rule, but on the whole, unless you’ve proven that your lengthy posts are actually worth my time, I’m not reading them.

- Posts typed by people whose keyboard doesn’t have an “Enter” key – If your entry is a single paragraph of 100+ lines, then you’re not doing yourself or anyone else any favors. It could be some of the most worth-while content that the Web’s ever seen, but when presented in that format, nobody’s (at least I’m not) going to see it.

- Posts about how your baby is one month older than he/she was last month – This has its exceptions too, but again the rule of thumb is that while I love you and your kid, I’m not surprised that he/she has in fact aged over the past month. I don’t necessarily care to read about it. Unless, that is, you are a professional photographer and your posts of this nature are accompanied by sick photos of said child.

- Posts by authors who are historically neither funny nor entertaining with their content – It is people like this who took my subscription count down from 150 to 130. My conscious won’t allow to unsubscribe from a handful more, but just because I’m subscribed doesn’t mean I’m reading…

- Post number x of 7 unread from a single blog since I last checked my Reader – If you update your blog three times a day, I’m out. I even unsubscribed from my keyboard playing girlfriend’s blog for this very reason.

Now having said that, I’m fully aware that most of what I put out here on odfm is hardly worth reading. In fact, of the 440+ posts that odfm boasts, I’d guess only 10 of them are worth they time they take to read. Say all that to say, sincerest thanks to you for reading my blog, since chances are I’m not actually reading yours.