Comments on: Restarting My Feed Reader

By: flosch

flosch — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:55:26 +0000

In fact, that might make a good post for some day: “How the Melting Pot manages to comb through all those posts”. How do you manage to read all the material? Do you use a filing system to match posts with similar topics? And so on.

By: flosch

flosch — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:17:10 +0000

Diagonal reading, that is, reading fast and effectively absorbing vast amounts of text in short time, is one of the skills that, for one reason or another, I never learned at university, even though it seems vital for at least for some degrees. (Guess I’m lucky I chose another!) I always wonder how you manage to wade through the sheer amount of text that you must be buried under in your feed reader.

Anyway, I managed to read the first 80 already, so go me!

By: Hugh @ MMO Melting Pot

Hugh @ MMO Melting Pot — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:48:26 +0000

Wow, yeah, 800+ posts would take even me a few hours to get through (I’m usually greeted by about 350 every Monday). Much respect for the perseverance!

By: flosch

flosch — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:19:56 +0000

Priorities indeed.
You are up top at my list for reading in any case because of two reasons: a) I like your blog, and I think it was actually the first one I read on a regular basis two years ago or so, and b) a very practical one: “Ancient Gaming Noob, The” is pretty far up my alphabetically sorted list of blobs.

(edit: I meant blogs! What a Freudian slip when talking about EVE.)

You can be happy you took “Wilhelm Arcturus” as EVE name, and not “Ancient Gaming Noob”. I’m sure you’d lose a lot more ships during fleet operations otherwise…

By: Wilhelm Arcturus

Wilhelm Arcturus — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:40:29 +0000

But I see that you are carefully going through EVE Online related posts.

Priorities!