Once and a while I notce that a blog in my RSS Blogroll will have an unusal amount of posts showing unread. And as always happens, I come to find out that every post that they’ve made from that last 6 months suddenly re-appears in my inbox. Now the question I ask to you is this? Why does this happen? Is it the fault of Mozilla Thunderbird, which is my RSS reader? Or is it the feed provider (Wordpress or Feedburner) that is to blame?Or maybe it’s the blogger, who through some means controls this flooding of posts. Whatever it is, it has driven me bonkers (because I then have to delete all the posts that are “new” even though I’ve already read them!). Because of this, I sometimes am driven to delete a blog entirely from my blogroll. A shame, I know, but my short fuze can only be lit so many times. I just did that to one blogger, and for his sake, I hope it’s just a bug of the program I use; if it’s not, then shame on you said blogger for annoying the shit out of me. I will say that Search Engine Watch got the same fate a few weeks ago for the same reasons. Once a day, it would load the past six months worth of f’ing posts and I went nuts.

Another problem I see sometimes is duplicate posts. Search Engine Roundtable for some reason does this. Anybody have any thoughts as to why this happens? Is it a Mozilla glitch or is someone controlling this?

One more thought in a similar vein, and this applies to large corporate blogs who think their doing the right thing by posting a hundred posts a day-enough is enough. Espn for example has gotten the boot. I subscribed to their New Jersey Devils feed to keep up with my favorite hockey team, expecting a couple of posts a day about them. Instead I get so many posts about other teams and duplicate posts and then it’s like, to hell with it, I don’t have time for this–a feeling of being overwhelmed.

That’s why sites like Engagdet and Techmeme don’t really move me–there’s too much for me to keep track of, too much I could care less about. So a lesson in blogging for all you kiddies at home–don’t blog TOO much, or else youmay overwhelm your audience, turning them off instead of turning them into regular readers.