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Health & Fitness Blog Feed

Jennifer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:06:05 +0000

I’ve been chronicling my health and fitness journey since January 2009 in random places mostly in Livejournal and Facebook and decided to compile all the information here on my blog since both Facebook and Livejournal require login/password and friending in order to access the information I have posted on my journey. I have to say, it was an interesting process of backlogging all of my posts over the past six months and seeing the progress clearly laid out in front of me.

Stay tuned for more updates. I have a couple of new posts in the works, which hopefully I will be able to crank out in the next few days. You can add the health & fitness blog feed to your Google Reader or RSS

Jennifer’s Blog Feeds

Jennifer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:36:57 +0000

I write on many topics some that overlap each other and others that are completely different. Rather than starting a blog for each, I have created separate feed categories for each topic category, so you can follow my social media postings without having to read about health and fitness. I may add or change feeds from time to time, but here are the main ones I use.

Social Media Feed – Postings on social media such as Facebook, Twitter etc.

Virtual Worlds & Gaming Feed – Postings about activities within Second Life, World of Warcraft and other online virtual worlds and games.

Health & Fitness Feed – Postings about my journeys through diet and exercise dealing with Weight Watchers and yoga primarily.

Philadelphia Local Feed – Postings having to do with Philadelphia or events taking place in Philadelphia

Music Feed – Postings often deal with music and new media, local music stuff and events.

Signal to Noise Ratio

jennyfurperegrine — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:18:29 +0000

How much is too much when it comes to blog posts per day?

I’ve been thinking about this question as I watch my Google Reader tip on average 100 blog posts or more per day from my various blog feeds. I realize that this number is probably low compared to some of the people out there with hundreds of blog feeds. On average, I follow about thirty blogs, which if you evened it out, that would make three posts per blog per day roughly. However, about 90% of the daily blog post count comes from Tech Crunch and the newly launched Massively. I will allow for the fact that the two blog feeds feature multiple authors, but at some point in time you have to ask yourself is 20-40 blog posts per day a bit excessive? Especially, when some posts are no more than a couple of sentences or a paragraph in length.

I tune in to each of the three aforementioned blog feeds for various reasons. Tech Crunch has great articles on happenings in the music industry with special notice to new media and technology. Massively I peruse to keep abreast of whats going on in Second Life (and other Virtual Worlds) during my sustained absence from SL.

I would hate to ditch the feeds solely on the signal to noise ratio argument. I’ve found myself wondering how some of the post heavy blogs with multiple authors could move towards a blog cluster format like myblog/tech or myblog/music or myblog/secondlife to provide more accurate filtering for readers who want to stay in tune, but not be inundated in blog fodder. The best example I can think of to illustrate this point is how the Electric Sheep Company handles their company blogs. Employees have individual blogs, which you can add piecemeal or you can add the We the Sheeple feed, which seems to be an amalgamation of all the other sheep blogs into one feed.

Update: Thanks Flipper for pointing me to the Massively feeds by category. I need to check Tech Crunch to see if they do something similar.