There’s been this flu bug going around this area lately and I got a double dose of it starting last week. In being completely miserable, I pretty much ignored all my normal rituals, including keeping up on my RSS feeds. So this morning I jump onto Google Reader and give a premature wince knowing that I’ve got a lot of perusing to do, but when it read 485 posts, I went from wince to shock and awe in about .485 seconds.

I get over my initial response and just get to reading through. I peruse a lot of post and some I just mark as read without reading because it’s not missing anything important there. I notice, though, that one category of feeds is jammed with stuff, the lions share of posts. I don’t even both looking at those thinking I’ll get to them later because I need to write a post for Mom by Friday. That was around 7am this morning.

Here it is just after 2pm and I’m going through my posts again, but the number jumped up again to well over 300 post. I’m dismayed. Is there some major blogging push that I wasn’t aware or today?

Quick investigation finds the culprit to be one of my more recent subscriptions. Interior design blog, Apartment Therapy, stands atop the heap at a whopping 210 posts in less than a week. A.T. is a great site, but if this is the rate at which they publish, the insurmountable task of reading them everyday seems ridiculous. If they didn’t generate a lot of design inspiration, I would have kicked them off my reader in an instant.

I can see it already; they’ll be that blog I dread and ignore because I’m way behind in reading. Does anyone at A.T. think that maybe they’re pushing it a little hard? I can’t even imagine there being that much content on interior design each week.

Not sure what to do about it yet, but I know there’s a blog somewhere that talks about the negatives of obsessive posting.

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