When RSS feeds, readers, and aggregators were new, the manner of presentation was often referred to as a “River of News.” In the modern internet era, now that almost everything you could ever want to know about is available almost instantaneously online, what once was a “river” is now a flood, or, as some have taken to calling it, a “firehose.”

So, faced with this deluge of data, how do you cope? There are certainly many ways, so I’ll just cover the method I use.
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If you ever want to accomplish anything in this world, the one critical thing you need before and more than anything else is motivation.

Whether it’s internal, external, mental, physical, spiritual, psychological, magical, emotional, or unintentional, you’ve got to have something that makes you get up off your ass and into the workshop (whatever form that might take for you).
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Much of web development comes down to personal taste. How you indent your code, whether you use b & i or strong and em tags, whether you compartmentalize all your styles into neat little external stylesheets or liberally pepper your HTML with inline styles; most of these types of decisions have little bearing on the functionality or even “correctness” of your code. Likewise, there are many ways to handle some of the common elements that fall within the domain of that most sneaky of snake-oil salesmen—the SEO expert.

But I’ve spoken before of my disdain for that profession. What I’m going to talk about now is one little nugget in that arena:
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