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Posted by Chris Tackett April 29, 2008 at 11:25 a.m.

Links: cleaning out the RSS

I love [RSS][1]. It is such a time-saver, though like email or bills, you have to have a good system for tackling the incoming information of you will get behind and possibly stressed, which is the exact opposite of what reading RSS is supposed to do, which is save you time.I think I have a decent system for filtering incoming articles via RSS, though I have one flaw that I am trying to get over.I use [Google Reader][2], which has a feature called the 'Star' button. I use it to star posts that I know I am interested in seeing again, either because the article is about something I want to write about or it's about a product I want to buy or just something I want to read, but don't have the time when I first came across it. It is similar to, though a little different than the 'Share' button, because with that whatever you choose to share will show up on your [Shared Items][3] and with the Star button, only you can see what you've starred. I've found I have a hard time remembering to go back through and unstar stuff, so as a way to clear out my Google Reader Starred Items list (which is at close to 650 items going back to June 07) I'm going to start a daily post (maybe weekly if it takes too much time) of items I starred and think you will enjoy. I'm taking out all the geeky stuff or things I can't recall why I ever found interesting. And I'll split them up by months or other easy to separate chunks. Here are June and July's Starred Items:[Warped Custom Wallpaper][4][Scans of anarchist/sexual freedom magazine published in 1901][5][There's One Thing the US Presidential Contenders All Have in Common: God][6][Website helps you get your grandparents FBI files][7][The Myth of the Conservative movement][8][War and Censorship at Wilton High][9][TERREFORM'S SOFT CAR][10][One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding][11][Map shows how kids aren't allowed to roam around][12][The flags on our troops' uniforms say "Made in USA," but they're really "Made in Thailand."][13][MySpace, Facebook mirror class divisions in US society][14][The War on Drugs is Still a War on Blacks][15][Shit We're Diggin': The Kinetic Sculptures Of Theo Jansen][16][1952 comic predicts Bush/Cheny Iran policy][17][Talking Heads live in Rome 1980 concert vids][18] [1]: http://www.whatisrss.com/ [2]: http://www.google.com/reader [3]: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/10723063164490610650 [4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/12/warped-custom-wallpa.html [5]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/12/scans-of-anarchistse.html [6]: http://www.alternet.org/story/53591/ [7]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/13/website-helps-you-ge.html [8]: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/13/the-myth-of-the-conservative-movement/ [9]: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/54077/ [10]: http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/14/terreforms-soft-car/ [11]: http://www.alternet.org/story/54111/ [12]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/15/map-shows-how-kids-a.html [13]: http://www.americablog.com/2007/06/even-flag-on-their-uniforms-is-lie.html [14]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/24/myspace-facebook-mir.html [15]: http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/55403/ [16]: http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/07/shit_were_diggin_the_kinetic_sculptures.html [17]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/14/1952-comic-predicts-.html [18]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/21/talking-heads-live-i.html