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I really don't know how I ended up being subscribed to 1369 RSS feeds, but I did. A lot of it is probably Twitter feeds, which I subscribed to using Dave Winer's Twitter OPML exporter because I wanted a backup of this stuff.

So when I went to clean up my RSS folders today (how geeky can you get?), using Google Reader's organize function crashed by browser and almost the OS. Reboot, and it barely pulls the page up, but only about a third of it. The rest: The abyss.
Google Reader only scales so well: And then, the gaping void.

In other news, I've been hacking away at SpareChangeNews.net. Still a long way to go, but we should be rolling out a calendar system (yeah!), slide shows, and more in the next week or so.

Also, most of my blogging is over at ITKnowledgeExchange's IT Watch Blog now, so if tech news is your thing, try over there instead.

A few summers ago, I was guest editing a blog that covered a few topics I had only loosely tracked before. Since my job was to find and post the most interesting overlooked bits, I gave Yahoo! Pipes a look as a way to create a “news scanner,” and I was really happy with the result, dubbed IvyTrack ... when it worked.

Unfortunately, RSS feeds had a knack for not loading, but today I’m giving it another go with a guide on how to set up your own news topic tracker, including ways to get instant alerts through AOL IM or GChat when news on your beat breaks. Today, it’s all about speed, and Yahoo! Pipes can be a great tool on getting the heads up.

Read on for the full guide ...

I decided to take the numbers* of print editions and compare them to a small percentage of online "subscribers,**" in this case public Bloglines subscriptions. First time, so I might not have subscribed to the largest feeds, subscriber-wise:

*Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations as reported by USA today on 5/8/2006.
**Bloglines.com public subscribers to newspaper websites' front page rss feeds. If no feeds automatically detected, searched site for news feed.
***Could not ascertain primary rss feed. Chose most popular bloglines RSS feed.