Atlantic Turns out to be Better than Other Publications

I criticized Atlantic  the other day for some of the decisions they made in the redesign of their website,  including their decision to force blog readers to access blogs via a summary list of blog post.  Today I find that they have restored their Voices section to its previous accessibility (and fixed their RSS feed so that we get more than headlines).  Now I get James Fallows on my Google Reader exactly as I did before.  And if I click his picture on the site I go straight to his blog, exactly as I do with Andrew Sullivan.

Atlantic Makes the Same Mistakes Everyone Else Does

I realized last year that my Google Reading experience was sliding downhill at a fast rate because of the number of sites I subscribed to. I just didn’t have time for them all, so I started cleaning it out.

I made myself a rule similar to the rule I have for my closet. Each season, when I switch my wardrobe, I look at the “new” clothes being put into my closet and if I haven’t worn a piece of clothing for the last two seasons I give it away.

Now I look at my Google Reader folders on a regular basis and if I find I’m regularly skipping over a site without reading it when it comes up, I delete it. New sites don’t go into a category folder until at least a month has passed. They stay at the bottom of the list to see if I’m really going to read them and then they get moved or deleted once I know how they are working out for me.