I’ve found that I’ve been getting a bit overwhelmed by blognoise as of late. Korby and I talked a bit this past weekend about the current signal-to-noise ratio of the blogsphere, and I’ve been really trying to figure out how to personally deal with it. My blogroll sometimes reminds me of Zabar’s in New York – it’s full of delicious items, as longs as you’re willing to deal with sensory overload of it all.

Since I’ve been keeping up The Furrygoat Experience for over 2 1/2 years, I’ll consider myself an ‘old-timer’, and here are a few of the things that I’ve personally been struggling with lately:

1) Too much repetitive information. I read the same post by 15 people. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that’s a bad thing – people are passing along information they find useful (I do it all the time). In fact, I really like using my blog as a backup brain.

2) Posting for the sake of posting. Again, I do it all the time. How often do you see posts like “crap, I spilled coffee on me again“? A quick search reveals that I have at least 10 “Monday’s suck” entries. Interesting enough, they get the most hits. Wierd. People seem to relate when the universe spits on them.

3) Too many interesting posts. That might sound weird, but with blogs.msdn.com having over 600 posters, I find that there’s LOTS of juicy posts that are really interesting to me. I just don’t have the time to deal with them all.

4) No time to post. This is a personal one, and I just need to figure it out. I’ve had some really good, long posts bubbling around in my head, and I just can’t seem to find the time to slam them out. There’s been lots of interesting things going on (and some really cool projects/code/software I’d like to share), and I just need to get the time to do it. I did find it interesting that when I asked people who read this blog if I should go more technical, or keep it random, everyone who responded (on the wiki and in email) was that Furrygoat should remain ‘anything goes’.

I still think one the best advice for new bloggers that I’ve seen of late is “blog like nobody’s reading“. I do it, and I find it’s somewhat therapeutic, which was the point of this post.

Bottom line: I just need to slim down the number of sites that I read. Go for quality (not technical quality, just what’s interesting), not quantity.

Now that’s out of my system, I think I’m going to give dasBlog a roll this weekend again. Change is good, stirs things up. I just need to figure out a decent way to keep the 1000 permalinks on here ‘permanent’.