I changed jobs a few months back. In my new job I haven´t had the possibility to dedicate much time to social media. I have barely been surfing through the blogs I subscribe to in Google Reader, and much less hanging out over at Twitter and Friendfeed, or writing here on my own blog.

The funny thing is that I haven´t really missed it. Sure, I do miss a few blogs, but its a surprisingly few. Sure, I do miss stumbling over a great heated discussion over at Friendfeed, and sure, I do miss the platform of my blog to get something off of my chest.

But thinking of it, I am surprised of how little I have missed from my life as a social media junkie. Tonight I am having one of the rare nights where I´m home alone. Furthermore its one of the nights where I am not up for looking at work, not up for TV or DVD´s, not up for chatting away on Facebook.... And I can´t be bothered at all with even opening Twitter.

See that´s the problem. I have just been looking at my 1.000+ feeds over at Google Reader. I skimmed some headlines from a few of my favorite bloggers, and I wondered if it had been a slow news summer. Not that there weren´t any new blog posts - there were a lot actually. They just all seemed so un-interestingly boring.

So while I wondered if it was my new job which had changed my interests so much that I didn´t find any of my favorite bloggers the least interesting, I started getting annoyed with Google Reader due to the eternal slowness of my computer to open feeds in their original source view. Of course I know it has nothing to do with Google Reader, and even though the Google  Corp. can be blamed for many things, it can hardly be blamed for my lousy old desktop computer.

What I wanted was a RSS reader which can show full posts, even for limited info rss feeds such as the newspapers which only give appetizers so that readers are forced to visit their site. I wanted a filter which could scan through the 1.000+ folders and give me only what was interesting to me.

So while I was wondering if my chances of finding such a feed reader would be bigger at Twitter or in Google, and if it would even exist I realized that what I really want is value. 

I WANT VALUE!

I am fed up with getting 500 new Tweets per minute where max. 2 of them has any value what so ever. I am fed up that I never see any people on Twitter that I don´t wanna block immediately because their endless conversation with everyone is of no real value to anyone. I am fed up with entering Google Reader and seeing that even my favorite bloggers have sold out on their integrity and seem to be writing new blog posts not out of passion, but out of a belief that what matters is quantity. And I am fed up that every blogger, and their mama, seems to be publishing some kind of "This is the truth" self help/productivity book in 2009.     

Twitter and the real time web have been hot buzz words for a year or more now. People seem to be dying if they do not get their tweets and rss feeds in absolute real time.

Well, I don´t know if so many people are that busy to need info in real time. But that's beside the point anyway. What I hope for is a return to old school blogging. Of course I know this will never happen in main stream. Twitter and Facebook are here to stay.

But I hope for the return of some old school blogging, where quality and passion will again be central and celebrated values. I will much prefer a well thought through post giving a personal account or providing a new perspective. But maybe its not about either/or.

Maybe all I need is better filtering.  And a fast feed reader which can provide inline view or pull full blog post even from feeds with limited rss info posting.

I´m now on the lookout for new favorite bloggers. Bloggers who write with passion and an ideal that they should provide value, not noise.

Who are your favorite bloggers, and what are your favorite filtering methods/tools?