I like the 'earth in the middle' one best - Geoff Schultz
I think I like the planet on the best... but I like so many - Stefan Hayden
My favorite is the 'four elephants on the back of a giant turtle' version, for various Terry Pratchett related reasons (though the psychic cards are a close second.) - Jennifer Dittrich
I like the first one - UFOs and pyramids. - Mitch Wagner
It's terrible that someone got injured. I don't think it warrants a policy change though. Even non-maple bats are hard and sometimes they go into the stands and hit people. Balls are hard and they definitely hit a lot more people. Should MLB move to aluminum bats (more issues there) and softer balls? I don't think so. Fans need to be aware that the closer that sitting close to home plate comes with the risk of being hit by a bat or ball from the field. - Rob Safuto
Currently subscribed to 25 as I deleted all feeds I was subscribed to earlier this morning, but I am looking for more. I just need to figure out a way to properly organise them. - Timothy Neilen
138 right now. I normally hover around 150 as I tend to clean up every month or so. - Rob Diana
personally i have around 30-40. how do you guys have time to read all that? - Ethan Klapper
Ethan: nobody reads every feed. Mastering the ability to skim and pull out a few key phrases to determine the value of the article helps tons. A lot of times, a feed I'll have will only produce 1 nugget of goodness a day (or even week), so it's quick to get through them. I know other people think that's crazy, and just unsubscribe. Nuts to that I say. - Mark Trapp
@Mark I agree, not even I do that. lol - Ethan Klapper
i'm at 80 and a neurotic trends checker and deleter of feeds. - Ethan Winters
currently at 40, I weed out to only those that I read - Samir Balwani via twhirl
Right now 433! I use Google reader, w/ better Google reader and filters to manage the madness. - Steaprok
I skim over 132 feeds...Time to weed and replace some though. - Shane Floyd
Only 108, but add more each day. Some tend to be very high volume, about 100 articles/hour. - Vince DeGeorge
284, but it always 1000+ unread in reader, too lazy to delete sum - alexdesigns
55 down from 150. Using more recommended/popular services like rssmeme, twitbuzz, readburner, delicious. Read percentage up while saving time. - Hao Chen via fftogo
I have about 550 but i organized into folders i.e. top sites, music, art/photography, tech...by the way, i think muhammad saleem said it to someone already, but remember - deleting or marking items as read does not accomplish anything so don't waste time with it. if i like an article on any site, i click that orange button and subscribe. - jaybol
@jaybol I disagree. It does a lot for my state of mental well-being to see a folder cleaned out. ;) - Cyndy
I'm a bit slack... I only have 96 in my reader at the moment. - Martin Jamieson
@cyndy well i suppose if it helps your mental well-being then i will be the last one to tell you to stop :) i think i have too many feeds for that to be a worthwhile endeavor in google reader, but maybe other reader programs are easier to do that with and less time consuming - jaybol
currently over 500 in my google reader. I also run the new app Snackr and have imported multiple OMPL files of feeds (including Scobles which can be found here - http://tinyurl.com/57d2ar ) and it gives me a relevant, recent and constant stream of info that I couldn't care less if I miss yet is still valuable! - MikeonTV
“Leno just did a bit on Amazon.com's worst sellers. Best seller: Science of Hitting: by Ted Williams with John Underwood; Worst seller: The Science of Hitting on 15 year olds: by Roger Clemens.”
My wife and I have partial season tickets to the A's (a 20 game package this year), and tonight we saw Rich Harden healthy, pitching and beating the Red Sox 8-3, with home runs by Frank Thomas and Mark Ellis. We'll be back tomorrow evening. Looking forward to engaging with baseball fans of all teams here. - Louis Gray
'Bout time someone, anyone, beat the Red Sox. Thank you Oakland. Sweep the series! - Robert Stevens
“From your 42 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 10,843 items, starred 24 items, shared 238 items, and emailed 0 items. How uber is your reader?”
From your 80 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,227 items, starred 2 items, shared 133 items, and emailed 0 items. - Morton Fox
From your 45 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 2,018 items, starred 7 items, shared 31 items, and emailed 0 items.I do a lot of my sharing by tags rather than the direct share feature. I then make that a public tag, and use the Google Reader "Add a Clip" widget to place it in a web page. My personal website reads from my share by way of a perl script that reads my public list every 10 minutes and generates a static file so I'm not hitting Google's server every time someone loads my blog page. - Brooks Bishop
From your 197 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 28,749 items, starred 872 items, shared 406 items, and emailed 0 items. - Mark Trapp
From your 177 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 11,377 items, starred 4 items, shared 35 items, and emailed 0 items. I filter pretty heavily, lots of noise to get the signal I am looking for. - Shamir Katsu
Now that friends is an uber reader Mark's got there, wow! I agree with you on the sharing Brooks, with the new boocklet and the rooms I'll probably be going to the source to share as to make sure things end up in the right place. - Geoff Schultz
What can I say Geoff, I'm an information junkie! Although I'm sure the more pro Google Reader..ers.. will say my stunning Read to Share ratio indicates I need to subscribe to less feeds that don't produce interesting content more frequently. Nuts to that. - Mark Trapp
From your 80 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 24,376 items, starred 77 items, shared 300 items, and emailed 7 items. - Bwana McCall
From your 507 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 35,010 items, starred 0 items, shared 59 items, and emailed 0 items. (just started sharing recently) I know, I'm insane. Must... keep... reading... and... learning. - Andrew Dobrow
Man Andrew, now that's just one-upmanship right there. - Mark Trapp
From your 293 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 15,381 items, starred 0 items, shared 713 items, and emailed 7 items. - Louis Gray
From your 482 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1955 items, starred 0 items, shared 26 items, and emailed 1 items... I'm behind ;) - SocialTechArts
I think even more interesting would be to have a peek at what some of the big readers are actually subscribed to. How about feed turnover rate (add rate vs remove rate). Duplicate items must be horrendous depending on what you're subscribed to at those levels. Maybe duplicate item detection in reader will be a new frontier of innovation in the future for people who consume a massive amount of feeds. - Brooks Bishop
Speaking of duplicates, I'd love to see kind of a stacking function like google news uses. like get one story read it then another subscribed site posts a similar story so reader can then put the new one with the previous one tabbed behind it. It would be like Google News meets GMail Tabs meets Google Reader. - Geoff Schultz
I've looked through the tabs in Google Reader, and I'm not sure how to find this information. Am I just overlooking it? - Harvey Simmons
Found it: From your 384 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 39,518 items, starred 166 items, shared 33 items, and emailed 0 items. - Harvey Simmons
From your 103 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 13,200 items, starred 6 items, shared 213 items, and emailed 11 items. (I think the word READ should be replaced with GLANCED AT) - Kevin Shannon
From your 67 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 8,832 items, starred 30 items, shared 64 items, and emailed 0 items. .. Almost there :) - Bartek Gniado
From your 95 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,096 items, starred 16 items, shared 16 items, and emailed 8 items. Wow, I'm pretty weaksauce compared to a lot of your guys. - Vince DeGeorge
From your 58 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 579 items, starred 0 items, shared 71 items, and emailed 1 items. I need to pick up the pace! - Ethan Winters
From your 59 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 1,821 items, starred 4 items, shared 72 items, and emailed 0 items. I only started seriously using Google Reader about a week ago and I'm finding that I'm deleting a lot of feeds just because I'm not too big on the content. That being said I'm looking for suggestions on what I should be reading. - Timothy Neilen
re: facebook being closed.. if they get microsoft behind them will it matter? wouldn't microsoft integrate fb into everything and push it to the masses? perhaps automatically give you an account with a passport email? they could render linkedin moot, integrate with microsoft live and yadda yadda. what would ms be buying but the young college educated facebook userbase? - Ethan Winters via twhirl
Throw in Lester's start clinching the World Series, his ERA as a starter is 3.61; Josh Beckett's is 3.69, Johan Santana 3.72, Dan Haren 3.90, Justin Verlander 4.81, C.C. Sabathia 4.91. - Ethan Winters
