SMC Poll: RSS Consumption

December 4, 2008 by Kristie Wells

I am researching RSS Readers and the various ways people consume information/lifestreams, and ran a quick poll on Twitter this past Tuesday. It turned up some interesting feedback with 170 responses coming in by posting time:

Nothing surprising from the first question, most people consume information while in the office, with in the living room a solid second.

The second question was more interesting to me - most folks working off laptops over desktops and a large percentage tracking feeds while on the go.

And then came the kicker - the largest percentage (35%) feel they are fighting a losing battle and fall into the ‘information overload’ category.

The last question was exported into an Excel spreadsheet (not a graph), so I need to cull that data and will try to post a follow up over the next week.

I kept the poll short and to a very focused audience, which I believe slightly skewed the results, but still found it valuable information and will play a key factor in my research paper (for private use, but will continue to post results on future polls here).

Thank you to everyone who participated in this poll.

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Comments

3 Responses to “SMC Poll: RSS Consumption”

Jeremy Hilton on December 5th, 2008 12:00 pm

For those that fall into the information overload category, you probably need to adapt and do some reader spring cleaning.

If you consistently mark a blog as read without reading, unsubscribe.

If you find that a blog doesn’t speak to you anymore, unsubscribe.

If all the blogs you subscribe to are important, but you can’t keep up with your reader, try prioritizing blogs in order of importance. Drop the last 1/3 of your list.

Also, you don’t have to read every post. There a few blogs where I read every published post. For the most part, my time in a reader is spent scanning titles.

Good luck!
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gfox on December 8th, 2008 10:12 am

So nice to see that we’re all fighting the information overload battle - I really had a tough time being honest on that last question!