Sigh.

A while back I realised I was drowning in the number of feeds I was subscribed to on Bloglines. (Opening it up and seeing 1,500 unread items is a wee bit on the brain-busting side of the fence.)

So I sucked it up and did a massive cull, eliminating the feeds that were boring me and the feeds that were stressing me out. The stress-out feeds were the ones that were piling up too fast for me to keep up with and would usually just result in me clearing out the unread items en masse, just in an effort to relieve the pressure.

Things seemed to be well under control — I no longer felt like a slave to Bloglines.

But recently, I noticed that I wasn’t actually getting any news. We’re talking headlines here — news of the world, “Extra! Extra! Read all about it!” sort of stuff. I was first off the block if someone released, say, an MP3 player in the shape of a chipmunk that would also vacuum your floor while you slept, but God help me if I actually wanted to know something newsworthy — like, say, the US VP shooting his hunting partner. (Days behind on that one, I was.)

So, I subscribed to the Google News feed.

And now… I’m drowning again.

So this is my call to my peeps — can anyone recommend a good news feed that gives a good spread of world news (not US-centric), but one that doesn’t just throw everything out there. I’m looking for a wheelbarrow’s worth of news here, not a dump truck.

Suggestions?

OK… there seems to be a problem with Bloglines reading the Atom feed of this site. (It seems to be an issue with some Wordpress sites.)

If you do wish to subscribe to this site on Bloglines, I recommend using the RSS feed — specifically, the Subscribe to Bloglines button — — will do the trick.

I still love you, Bloglines…