I realized recently that I'm spending too much time reading newsfeeds and blogs. RSS makes it so easy, you see.

So I'm cutting back. If you look at a Harvard-MBA 4-quadrant diagram with frequency of posting on one axis, and value-add on the other axis, my main targets are the very frequent, low value newsfeeds.

In my view, that's just about every mainstream media newsfeed--not because the quality of the reporting is low, but because so much "news" is repetitive or irrelevant to me. Even The Wall Street Journal gets the axe here. I still read the Journal online, I just won't be subscribing to the news feed of every single freakin' article.

I'm also unsubscribing from many of the largest political blogs: Instapundit and Daily Kos go in the dustbin because there's just not enough value add there (Instapundit, in particular, seems to be the poster child for high-volume, low-value blogging). Kevin Drum and the Volokh Conspiracy can stay, however, since they consistently have a high level of insight and analysis.

I'll keep subscribing to low-volume feeds (since the time it takes to keep up is low), where low-volume is defined as roughly less than one post per day. In those very rare instances where a high-volume blog also has lots of value, I'll keep that too.

All this should give me more time to devote to my 12 Dot-Com Startups in 12 Months project, right?