I am so overloaded with unread RSS feeds that sometimes I go through what I call “RFS” (RSS Fatigue Syndrome). It’s like a drug - you know you need to cut back but when you do, you feel like you’re missing out on something and you end up going back to it. Plus, my work writing this blog and also writing for Make Use Of and Google Tutor kind of requires me to read daily RSS feeds so that I have something to blog about.

So my curiosity was aroused when I read on Digital Inspiration (one of my favourite blogs) that there was now a “RSS Panic Button” which gave you the option to mark all feeds as read once your unread list hit a certain number (you can specify the number). I thought “ha! just the thing!” but when I investigated, I discovered that this wasn’t a standalone software application but instead a new integrated feature of Feed-Demon 2.6.

While I like the idea of a RSS panic button to wipe unread feeds, I am too married to my Google Reader to move to another RSS reader. So I hope someone at Google sees the RSS panic button idea and adopts it for use in Google Reader!

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