He didn't seem that much addicted. He seems to read a short amount of RSS compared to, well people like me, didn't even vote. And now he's reading 2 posts/day on HN? I don't think it's even possible, if you were really addicted to RSS to shrug it down to that small amount.
Back in the days I was writing for a news blog so I used to subscribe to 100+ blogs and news website, in french or english, I was alerted of a post more than twice a minute.
My day was, literally, to sit in front of my computer and read, filter, subscribe, unsubscribe.
The only way I found to stop this addiction after a year of up and down was just to stop using NetNewsWire and Google Reader (don't ask me why I was using two of them, more filters...).
3-4 years after, I just check reddit, HN, couple of french websites and know more about american politic than my country's politic.
Back in the days I was writing for a news blog so I used to subscribe to 100+ blogs and news website, in french or english, I was alerted of a post more than twice a minute.
My day was, literally, to sit in front of my computer and read, filter, subscribe, unsubscribe.
The only way I found to stop this addiction after a year of up and down was just to stop using NetNewsWire and Google Reader (don't ask me why I was using two of them, more filters...).
3-4 years after, I just check reddit, HN, couple of french websites and know more about american politic than my country's politic.