I'm kind of anxious and unsure about moving all of the web sites that I read regularly but don't have in my RSS reader, well, to my RSS reader. Stuffing every possible news source to a news reader would be wise, of course, but it's not that simple. It would be efficient, but I don't know if I want to be efficient.

In a way, I do want to be efficient. I have a (too) slowly evolving set of writers whose all new stuff I want to read. (Well, I don't want to read everything they write, but, rather, I don't want to miss anything they write, except those writings that I didn't want to read.) For this purpose, some sort of an semi-automatic news reader, such as some relatively well-implemented RSS reader, is just perfect. Except when it isn't.

For some of the time I spend in my news reader, I'm perfectly happy that the designer of the said news reader made my news reading efficient, and for some of the time, I'm perfectly unhappy. The last time I used my news reader I saw three new items; one of them was an article that for some unknown reason keeps popping up in my reader; one of them was an article that's a link to another article I've read a week ago; third seemed interesting but was about something I really don't care about, so I skipped it. Five seconds later I was done. Veeeeeery efficient, but not what I wanted.

I wanted to waste some time reading interesting stuff from the Internet. And I don't want to read anything. I want to read the stuff I've already said I was interested in. I know that there are services that make recommendations for new subscriptions based on my current subscriptions, but such services a) suck b) don't solve my problem. I want an news reader interface that obeys a command like this: "I want to read interesting stuff about subjects that interest me (or that might interest me) for about an hour. I also want to always read any new stuff that these 50 people have said. I don't want to miss anything said about this-and-this subject. Thank you."

What this all has got to do with my opening paragraph is that the sites that I read regularly but don't have in my RSS reader are sites that let me go about surfing the net semi-randomly. With RSS reader, I only see the new articles. With real web sites, I see link-logs, blogrolls, comments with links to other sites, and such. Hour easily wasted. This does not happen with an RSS reader.

Also, I'm very tired now.