When I came back from vacation, as the rest of the world, no doubt, I faced an endless number of unread items in my feed reader. Around 12,000. I suspect (or know?) a dirty secret in the feed reader biz is that no one really reads that much.<\/p>\n
In the spirit of the naked desktop<\/a> and a more distraction free work-top<\/a>, I turned off two feed reader attention grabbers: the growl notification of new items and the dock icon that tells me how many unread items I have.<\/p>\n At the time, I didn’t really realize how much of a relief it would be. As with most others in the web-world<\/a>, I’m continually battling to get and maintain focus on tasks (ironically, this post is distracto-rat-hole from a larger post I’m writing<\/a>). So, even though the little “56 new items!” pop up and dock decoration was minor, it’s just one less shiny object<\/a> to pull my attention.<\/p>\n …now…back to that other post.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Technorati Tags: distractions<\/a>, infoglut<\/a>, vienna<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ignoring notifications of new items in the feed reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-rss","category-the-analyst-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}