Just stop for a few days, for whatever reason (in my case, I just decided I was spending too much time consuming and not enough producing). Then come back and look at the total of unread posts. This is just one small part of one grouping I have. Much as Roy amazes me with his erudition and wit, to say nothing of the cutting snark, I can’t read 26 posts. And 148 from Attackerman? Not gonna happen.
My total unread is 9,744. I just can’t read them all. And marking them all read, as easily as I do that with email, just doesn’t seem worth it. It will be back over the top of the bucket again in no time. think it’s time to prune, as in hack to the ground, my feed list.
At this point, I’m good with a once-daily email summary or preview like TPM does. Everything old is new again . . .
Maybe that’s the new aggregator: something that summarizes the posts in an RSS feed and mails you the result. Lazyweb, get on that, won’t you?