He used to send them via e-mail but evidently quit doing that,
I’d love to see them get into my local Temple of Truth, how would
one go about doing that.

The “bits” are actually already there, the categories and tags of blogs, yet there isn’t any feed reader I know of that does a per-feed filtering by tag, which would actually be great. It would come down to the blogger having the discipline to keep only a few main tags, so in Dawn’s case there would be “Catholicism”, “Education” and “Cartooning” for those people interested in just one or the other, while the main feed would be the “magazine” or the full tapestry of that person’s life.

I do understand the desire to have only a single blog. I have one over on blogger, another at giveness.com, yet another on myspace and then a fourth at suicidegirls. Each with a unique facet of my life. The few readers of my blogspot account probably care more about the actual nerd facts I talk about there instead of the review of the Gogol Bordello concert on the MySpace page or talking about my latest tattoo over on SuicideGirls or my latest charity work on Giveness.com, yet, there are a few that do and I would much prefer maintaining a single space.

Hmm, interesting ideas….

You can filter even more with the category IDs. You can do category exclusion in WP 2.1+

http://example.com/feed/?cat=-2,-4,-5 (Feed for the blog, minus any posts in categories 2, 4, or 5)

http://example.com/feed/?cat=5,-4 (Feed for all posts in category 5, minus any posts that are also in category 4)

Experiment and see what you can come up with! (note: this won’t work on this site because Chris is redirecting all feeds to FeedBurner)

If your blog is about cartooning, you don’t post about Catholicism.

If you want to write about Catholicism, you do that on a blog about, well, being Catholic.

*unless the cartoon is related to the religion.

My only problem with this is that I don’t want to miss out on anything. I currently use Google Reader to absorb my feeds and I use the list view. I scan the titles of the posts and read the ones that catch my eye and mark the others read.

for example http://net-k.us/blog/?cat=4 shows just my Apple related posts (forgive my shameless promotion on your site, Chris but its relevant.)

I read in the neighborhood of 50 or so feeds a day, from some pretty prolific sites, looking for stuff to blog about on my site. (engadget, Scoble, Gizmodo, Digg, etc…) but I don’t read every post in the feed, how could I?

I could just subscribe to specific posts or categories, but I’d rather see it all and filter it myself. I never know when something off topic will catch my eye and why limit yourself.