Jeff Veen turns off the Dock notification in NetNewsWire to preserve his sanity and his time. Yes, the red numbers go away. Dave Winer says those of us who treat RSS like email are “using it the wrong way.” Apparently, treating the red numbers (a proxy for RSS) as boxes to check off bothers Dave. I think the beauty of RSS is that you can do whatever the hell you want with the information. Dave can sit by the river while I can obsess about keeping up with flow. Different strokes for different folks.
The irony, I find, is that Dave and I agree elsewhere in his short paragraph, when he writes:
Your time is what’s valuable, there’s no value to the items you didn’t read. If it’s important it’ll pop up again.
Yeah… you can’t duck the bad news, and good news finds you eventually.