Thing 30 More Ways to Use RSS and Delicious

There is no reason for anyone to use the internet and not use an RSS reader. It is hands down one of the most useful tools out there and I adore it. I, of course, use Google Reader. In fact I started using it before I really understood what it was, but the prompts were so simple that I was able to figure it out and realize the awesome power of it fairly quickly. One of my favorite blogs, 20x200, is part blog, part art gallery and part store. Each week, this bricks and mortar gallery in New York introduces two new prints, one photograph and one graphic, and you can buy these limited editions for as cheap as $20!!! Jen Bekman, who runs the gallery, is cool, completely immersed in the latest art and came up with the idea of making the latest art available to the masses. If I did not have RSS, I would forget-JUST PLAIN FORGET- to check and see what goodies are waiting for me. Seriously, it's like having a little present that you've customized for yourself waiting for you. And you don't have to fill up your email inbox.
With that said, some of the feeds are a pain. I've subscribed to a couple of different news feeds and the amount of material has just been overwhelming. For instance, I started subscribing to the (new) White House blog when Obama became president. It was SO cool to get a play-by-play of what was going on every day. One of the problems, though, was frequently the feed would send me the entire blog: all the entries from the beginning, even after I had read them all. Now this was clearly a problem with the platform itself, but I unsubscribed because of it. Others, like the Star Tribune politics blog, inundated me with too many things. Same with The Morning News, an really great online magazine. Every year in March, The Morning News does a "Tournament of Books," pitting the latest, hippest books against each other according to the very subjective reviewers. It's funny and fun and I would like to subcribe to just that, but when I subscribe I get EVERYTHING that The Morning News posts, which is like a magazine's worth of reading PER DAY.
Now, I've heard the opinion of some that you should just subcribe to as many things as interest you and don't worry if you don't get to it all, but I just cannot do it. I have hand-picked these 28 subscriptions and I want to read it all. I don't like feeling unfinished. It's weird the relationship that I have with my subscriptions: I've unsubscribed if a blogger is too depressing, or makes too many of the wrong choices, or blogs about stupid things once too often. The choice of these feeds is so personal, it's like creating your own library.
Delicious, on the other hand, has not been as reveletory for me. I went through a spate of using it for all web pages that interested me, but, like my former files of articles that I would rip out of magazines, I rarely, if ever, accessed them again. I definitely like knowing it is there, and probably someday I'll have a use for it, but for now I just don't need it.