I’ve been using google home for several years now, with about 10 tabs, 10-12 rss feeds on each. It’s like a customized newspaper I can check out each day, complete with comics, food and music reviews. I recently consolidated a number of blogs that I read/get updated frequently to a single favourites tab, though, and I tend to ignore the other tabs now.

One plus of this approach is that I can take a planet I follow like planet.olpc or planet.xml, and follow the planet’s stream as well as the individual streams that feed into it. That way, even if a number of posts hit the planet in a short span of time, I don’t lose sight of posts over time.

Facebook, on the other hand, does very little for me. For all the applications etc, it strikes me as “not fun”.