Overload

I am having some serious web-related organization issues.

RSS. It’s supposed to make life easier, but I have gone overboard. I have 199 feeds in my Bloglines account, 113 of which are updated and unread. I probably regularly read maybe a dozen of those. A few are on my daily list, a bunch when they’re updated, and some more on the weekends only. Most just accumulate more and more unread items until I click them and quickly scan the headlines. Some of these hide in my “Academic” or other folders, where I “forget” to check them. I was thinking of rearranging them into cateogories like “daily”,”weekly”, “occasionally” or even days of the week. At any rate, I need to start paring down my list, or I will feel overwhelmed every time I check Bloglines.

Podcasts. I love the idea of podcasts. I have been using iTunes for downloading and listening to them, and it works well. Same problem as above, though. 29 podcasts, of which I listen regularly to like 2. Now, I don’t have an iPod, so my podcast listening is really limited to at home, from the computer, which may affect the types of things I feel like listening to. I sub to some poker podcasts, which I NEVER listen to, as well as other talky things, like Democracy Now , which tend to pile up and take harddrive space. Those I listen to quite regularly are music related, like Coverville, Dave’s Lounge, Warren Ellis’s Superburst Mixtape; or things like On the Media or other NPR shows I forget to listen to. A brand new one I just discovered is TMBG’s podcast, the first of which is hilarious. So, I need to trim these also, but I also want to find more that would interest me. Does anyone know of any good media-related, trip-hop, mashup, local (detroit), classical, novelty or others that might interest me, even as I delete a bunch I currently subscribe to?

Wishlist.
Could someone please write an extension for Firefox that lets me navigate Bloglines more easily? I use Bloglines because I read blogs from multiple locations, and it keeps me organized, but it has limitations. I like Sage for Firefox, or even Safari’s RSS reader, but it doesn’t help when I switch computers. Google has a new reader that looks pretty interesting, but I don’t think it does what I need. I want to see unread entries, be able to categorize, and/or see all headlines within a category as headlines, regardless of the feed. I want to mark some read, but not all, which BL does not let me do. I also want to share, which BL facilitates wll.

I would love an application or standard that lets me see comment threads I’ve participated in across blogs. An RSS feed of comments would be a good start (you can do that on this blog, by the way. Comment here if you want more info), but what I would love is a standard that lets me see comments I have made on other people’s blogs, and followups to those comments, much like flickr does. Having all of those aggregated into RSS would be fine. I forget to check comment threads I’ve started/participated in, or things get buried if people update frequently, so I need a push technology that will help me with that.