Blogs take too much time
Posted by JeffJan 15
I am starting to find that I am spending more and more time reading other people’s blogs and not enough time working on my own sites, business plans, niche research, etc.
Since the New Year I have set a strict time limit for spending in my online endeavor. I found that I was spending too much time in the virtual world last year so that is why I set a limit this year.
Now I am finding that I have way too many blogs in my list, and to make the situation worse it seems that few of them have original news. A lot of them are just posting what the last guy posted, or regurgitating what someone else said. Too little important stuff and too much fluff.
I am going to start weeding through the ones that I think are fluff, and the ones that I truly think are good. Right now there are not that many on the top of my head that I think I am going to keep around. The ones that I do I will add to the “Blogs that I Read” list, and if I find one more, or if one starts to go down hill I will delete it.
Maybe then I will spend less time reading what other people think is important and spend more time working on what is going to make my online experience better.
I will let you know how long this lasts 
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