I will try to summarize the discussion we had here on how to reduce or manage the time spent on writing/reading blogs, and I will add my own tips.
1) If you have a very long free time, then don’t bother reading this!
2) Previously agree on the amount of time you want to spend reading other blogs before you start. (e.g: say you will spend one hour reading blogs before you start, so that you don’t spend more!.) You can also give it a weekly time, like 7 hours a week (1 hr a day).
3) Use RSS readers. If you don’t know what RSS or RSS reader is, then Click Here to know about it (Click Here for Arabic explanation of RSS).
4) I recommend Google Reader as an efficient, free, easy, and fast RSS reader. So when using Google Reader, you don’t have to follow the blogs you want. Rather, the blogs will follow you! Don’t be confused, it’s simple. You just sign up for google reader, and then add the blogs you like and you will magically receive the posts of the blogs you want at your google reader inbox. This should reduce the time you waste following the blogs you like; because whenever a blog is updated, you will receive the post directly at your Google Reader! Watch this video to know more about Google Reader.
5) Quality of blogs: Make sure you read useful blogs, and you are the only one who decides what kind of blogs you consider useful.
6) Reduce the number of posts you publish. You don’t have to post daily, It wastes your time!
7) Check your blog once or twice a day, to reply comments.
Thanks everybody for your contribution and advices, If anyone have any new ideas, please post them as comments here. I hope this was helpful.
PS: For bloggers who use Jeeran, please go to FeedBurner and sign up for feed there, It’s simple and very fast. The RSS feeds of “some” of the Jeeran blogs are not working (I don’t know why), so please register in FeedBurner so I can read your blogs by Google Reader.
Problem fixed ![]()
on 07 Oct 2006 at 9:11 am # S H A R I F O
hehehehehehehehe…
that dillema is that u have extremly free time but you don’t have electricity..!!
on 07 Oct 2006 at 4:08 pm # Abed. Hamdan
VagueRaz: Im still trying ! but thank you
Shirazi: Yeah, Im trying to do it, let’s give it a shot
thanks for you visit dude
MoeY: thx! I’ll reply it in my next post nshallah .
Furgaia: thanks for this piece of advice, I really appreciate it
atcually I read all the news once or twice a day, and I don’t check too many news networks. Blogs what really waste my time
Sharifo: LOOOL ! nshalla Gaza will be fine, Im sure of this
nawwaret bro 
on 07 Oct 2006 at 5:28 pm # Anonymous
salam, i use feed reader. it updates in seconds. i just click what’s new. & i think it’s good. i guess i read Google Blogs a lot. daily - sometime multiple times a day. i just wanna know what’s up, i guess.
i guess i like it if they write their blogs daily. but then again, i don’t wanna wish for something i can’t handle. so God Wills, everything’s good as it is.
on 08 Oct 2006 at 1:49 pm # Anonymous
Hi there!
Thanks for postin in my blog, Abed you have been tagged! check my blog
on 08 Oct 2006 at 9:05 pm # ALiaa
now am not working so i have too much free time but when i work after ramadan ill have to take by ur advice….thanx
on 09 Oct 2006 at 3:19 am # 7ala
Good tips Abed !
And I agree that we dont have to post daily , aslan its better to give time to your readers to read your post .. msh kollo m7assal ba3do !
on 09 Oct 2006 at 9:51 am # Abed. Hamdan
nisa: that’s good, so you are a dedicated googler
Lilly: thank you! I will respond to the tag in my next post nshallah
Aliaa: we should try! thx:)
7ala: absolutely!! we should give the reader time to read our blog! I find it hard to track blogs that update daily!
7ala, please, can you sign up to FeedBurner ?? I want to read ur blog via Google Reader, and ur RSS syndication doesn’t work, please register to FeedBurner, they will make u a feed instantly.
on 09 Oct 2006 at 2:28 pm # ArabLady
Hey Abid Wuts Up
I dunno why I cants view ur blog properly…..anyways hope u r doing well…good tips by the way esp the one about posting daily..well somehow agree with u but after all it depends on the goal of the blogger ….is he like blogging 4 fun and entertainment or he might have other purposes/goals ……..so the quality of his posts will eventually depend on the main purpose of maintaining a blog
on 10 Oct 2006 at 6:23 am # neverland
Wass up pal? I hope you are doing OK
take are friend and God bless 
on 10 Oct 2006 at 9:53 am # naturalblu
i have long free time :S ;op
on 10 Oct 2006 at 2:45 pm # hamede
I blog when i,am at work only,no pc at home.
on 10 Oct 2006 at 3:18 pm # Abed. Hamdan
ArabLady:
Heey ! Welcome back !! long time, isn’t it ?
I don’t know why u can’t view my blog properly ! :S It’s working fine here! :/
MMmm, you are right, Blogs depends on the goals (if there’s any), but I beleive that blogging daily makes it hard to the readers to track it as 7ala said.
NeverLand:
NeeeeeeevvvvverrrrrrrrrLaaaaaaaaaand !!!
Thank you !! Im really fine, 7amdollah! never better !!! Hows u ?? and hows everything ? I hope everything is going fine between u and ur fiance
allah eywaffe2kom
NaturalBlu: Lucky you !!
Hamede: Mmm, Im telling your boss that you waste ur working blogging
on 11 Oct 2006 at 7:46 am # hamede
i am the boss.
on 11 Oct 2006 at 4:33 pm # Abed. Hamdan
Hamede:
loool!
ok, then I will tell the company owner to dismiss you and put me as a new boss
:P
on 11 Oct 2006 at 10:43 pm # queenie
Good tips. When I first started blogging, I was so addicted to EVERYTHING blog-related, I used to spend all of my time reading blogs and fixing up my blog, etc…
on 12 Oct 2006 at 3:54 am # neverland
2el7amdellah bro, everything is OK, how is your training and study going on? Keep up the good work
on 12 Oct 2006 at 8:47 am # hamede
Lah lah lah,radat 3al ba3adha.
on 12 Oct 2006 at 11:52 am # Noor
Hi. good tips and well done. you are so special. hope u r doing well in Ramadan and in ur life in general. Salam
on 13 Oct 2006 at 5:22 am # Islamic ChoCoHoLic
u have been TAJJED
on 13 Oct 2006 at 9:22 am # Abed. Hamdan
Queenie:
I think I was in the middle of this few months ago :S
NeverLand:
Neeeeevvvvvvvreeelan again,
this means the world to me
Training next semester nsallah, project is going fine 7amdollah
Hamede: :PP
Noor: oh, thank you noor, so sweet of you
IslaMic Chocoholic: Thank you
I’ll reply the tag(s) soon nshallah
on 14 Oct 2006 at 2:25 pm # Anonymous
Hey Abed .. that was a very interesting and useful post ! I liked the way you summarized what one can do to reduce time spent on blogs “reading and posting” and what I liked most is the way you considered how some of us are not aware of those technical terms
.. that should help a lot !
on 15 Oct 2006 at 12:54 pm # Noran
Wow >>> its help me alot …
real its helpful
on 15 Oct 2006 at 1:28 pm # Abed. Hamdan
TealOver: thank you, and Im glad you liked it, I hope it’s useful for both of us !
Noran: Im so glad, welcome
on 06 Nov 2006 at 2:45 am # Laith Zraikat
Hi Abed,
Thanks for pointing out the problem regarding Jeeran feeds with Google Reader.
So far we have not been able to duplicate the problem. I am subscribed to several feeds of Jeeran blogs in Google Reader, and have not had problems with any. This leads us to think the issue may be specific to a few blogs.
In order to find the cause, we will appreciate it if you can send us some information about the problem. I will e-mail you regarding that.
Thank you.
on 06 Nov 2006 at 5:46 am # Abed. Hamdan
Hi Laith,
actually the problem “was” specific to few blogs. I successfully added many blogs from Jeeran, but some of them didn’t work.
Upon reading your email , I tried to add these blogs to my GoogleReader again, and it’s working now!
For the record, the problem was with these two blogs:
http://halataha.jeeran.com
http://anotherworld.jeeran.com
The message that I got from Googlereader : “There’s no feed for this blog”
but I tried to add them now, and It’s working properly. Maybe the problem was with Google Reader, it’s a beta version (they call it “lab version” in the google jargon).