I had a problem. I subscribed to too many podcasts.
Now, I will admit this is not, at first blush, that big of a deal. However, one of the downside of a digital lifestyle, the digital debris tends to stack up. I listen to podcasts because my day job does not allow streaming. Thus, podcasts have become my daily radio, and the set up is rather nice. However, podcasts are easy to subscribe too, especially if you use iTunes to manage all your music needs (I like iTunes and iPods, and it is not because I am a Mac Cult member).
As the weeks past I found myself downloading a ton of podcasts, and really not listening to them. Finally, last weekend when I saw the number of podcasts I subscribed to, and the number of episodes I had waiting to be listen to, I realized that I had to take control of the situation. Hence, I culled the herd.
Prior to last night I had 45 different podcasts I subscribed to, and on average had 6 episodes waiting to be listened to. Looking closely, I noticed that some of these podcasts either had the most recent episode waiting to be listened to, or had no new ones because I had already listened to them. Seeing the obvious I went to work.
Now currently I listen/subscribe to only 8 podcasts. I do not see this getting above 10, for the foreseeable future.
Now I think I will turn my attention to the numerous RSS Feeds I have in Google Reader.
