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Back in July, I began an article on How to Manage Your Blogroll. Managing your blogrolls and managing your RSS-feeds is really all about “staying in touch” with wonderful, intelligent, funny or witty people. Be careful who you delete. Be careful who you add. It’s all about reputation. It’s about the global conversation, and taking a ride on the ClueTrain. It’s all about loving and respecting people. It’s all about the cycles of life, your circle of concern, and your circles of influence. It’s all about listening more than you talk.

God gave us two ears and one mouth, to remind us to listen more than we talk. My blog roll is full of links to many people that I have never met-in-person. I may disagree with some of the things they write, but I love and respect them all.

So, I was talking about various rules you might use — to know when to delete blogs from your list. Is there a book on blogroll refactoring? How do you know when to delete a link from your blogroll?

or.. How to Clean Out Your Sock Drawer

Right on the heels of reading Getting Things Done, a friend told us about FreeCycle.

Using the GTD method, you are encouraged to fill up your trash can every day. The inbox is your friend. The file drawer is your friend. The trash can is your friend. And now the FreeCycle re-cycling network is your friend. You can get lots of FREE stuff from FreeCycle and you can give away all your junk on FreeCycle.
Example: I was cleaning out my sock drawer and found I really had 3 sock drawers and way too many white socks. So I put a listing for 1 dozen pair of white socks (no holes, clean, almost new) – FREE.

My friend Cartrel had an expression for something that is quickly completed: “Boom. Done.” So easy to do, and so quickly completed. Within minutes — 9 people contacted me who wanted the FREE socks. Boom, somebody picks up the FREE socks off my front porch. They are happy and I am happy. Boom. Done. Freecycle is cool!