Google reader - take 2

So, I managed to get the rest of my data downloaded (thanks to this) and after a lot of faffing about, got what I wanted out at the end.

Between October 2006 and last week, I have starred 3,234 items, and read 125,875 (2.6%). That includes a bunch I had previously shared, but then starred when they took away the sharing facility.

As I did previously, I looked at my top sources first. The top 5 are Kottke, Craftzine, Roomthily, Design crush and information aesthetics - only two of which are also in the top 5 of the last 1000 entries.This chart shows the top 52 feeds by starred items. They make up 68% of my starred items.

Overall I have starred items from 313 feeds in total with between 1 and 210 starred items, meaning on average I have starred 10 per feed.

This is over 5 years, and I know my reading habits have changed over this time. For example, wedding blogs have (in the main) come and gone. The chart below looks at these top 50 feeds over time.

It starts to look a bit crazy this year - what was I doing in January/February! Based on the number of months I had the feeds (based on the earliest and latest starred item) I could work out the average by month by feed. I've had photojojo the longest, but I only star 0.5 items a month on average, while I am much more likely to star items - 9 a month on average - on Roomthily. Quipsologies is the feed I've had for the least time, only 9 months, and starred about 8 a month.

I had fun messing around with a bit of Impure and Processing with this data, but I'm not quite up to sharing yet, so you'll have to put up with poor excel charts for now.