For about 1 minute I had my feed reader down to zero. Of course in the time it took to start writing this there are new items. But for a brief fleeting moment it was in this beautiful state of nothingness, although I cheated and marked entire folders as read (mostly boing boing, music blogs, and flickr photos) to get it down there.
One of the biggest problems with getting your culture/news through a feed reader versus through traditional media outlets like magazines or tv is that you have a constant reminder of exactly how many things you are missing out on. When you read the paper or watch tv you don’t really think about all the other content you are missing out on. Or maybe other people do, I don’t know. I just know that when I pick up a magazine and then pick it up again months later I’m not really all that concerned about all the stuff that happened in between. I’m not going to go buy all the back issues and fill it in because it’s usually not very relevant any more.
I wish my feed reader had some sort of self destructing ability where certain things would cap off as they became irrelevant.