---
title: "New year's resolution: lowering the noise on the main feed (excluding this post :) )"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/24/new-years-resolution-lowering-the-noise-on-the-main-feed-exc.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/24/new-years-resolution-lowering-the-noise-on-the-main-feed-exc.html"
published: "2003-12-24T14:25:00"
updated: "2003-12-24T14:25:00"
tags: ["Blogging", "Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Now that Scott has implemented a feature in .Text that allows one to decide whether a particular post will be aggregated to the main feed or not, I'll be trying to take advantage of this and \"filter\" my off topic…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# New year's resolution: lowering the noise on the main feed (excluding this post :) )

By Roy Osherove December 24, 2003 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging), [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 24, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Now that Scott has implemented a feature in .Text that allows one to decide whether a particular post will be aggregated to the main feed or not, I'll be trying to take advantage of this and "filter" my off topic postings from the main weblogs feed. Hopefully, I won't be the only one and together we can make the main feed contain less noise and more signal.

Ironically, I'm posting **this post** on the main feed in order to bring all the blogger's attention to this feature. But, it's the last really off topic post that I'll be letting into the main feed from now on. I hope others will do the same.

Thanks. God bless, and, as [Mike](http://www.larkware.com/Articles/TheDailyGrind256.html) says :

"_Happy whatever to those of you who celebrate something**.**_**"**

PS

_If you don't know how to make a post appear only on your blog, here's how: when writing the post, open the "advanced options" bar on the bottom of the page and uncheck the last checkbox ("Include in aggregated site"). If you don't want to forget this when you need to, go to the Options->preferences tab and set "show ad vaned options" to "yes"_

## More in Blogging

[All posts in Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

- Jan 8, 2004

    ### [The FxCop Blog](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/1/8/the-fxcop-blog.html)

- Dec 31, 2003

    ### [Another one bites the bullet: Santo has left the building](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/31/another-one-bites-the-bullet-santo-has-left-the-building.html)

- Dec 24, 2003

    ### [Visualizing blogs](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/24/visualizing-blogs.html)

- Dec 23, 2003

    ### [About the new .Netweblogs features](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/12/23/about-the-new-netweblogs-features.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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