Hooked to my bookmarks

I spend too much time online, consuming all kinds of information. In the last year or so I have started to rely on bookmarks for my browsing needs. These bookmarks are mostly to RSS feeds of interesting blogs and news sites. They are divided into my areas of interest such as the technology (Mac), Estonian politics, MJ, etc. So whenever something happens in these areas I know about them almost immediately, because I am checking these sources multiple times a day.

While I do not need most of this information, I still have it out of habit. And it stops me from learning other things, spontaneously wandering around the net to find new and exciting things, not to speak of the huge waste of time. So why is it so? It seems I have just too many bookmarks, I add them too easily and do not bother to remove them once they are no longer relevant for me. The other things is, I am not a very patient and quite obsessive person so whenever I see there are new items is some of the feeds I just need to check them out (the same goes for mail, I cannot tolerate the little red circle with the number of unread mail messages in my dock).

So what I have done, is to clean up the bookmarks and removed those I did not use. It feels much nicer now…