I do the most blog reading between 10 and 11 AM.

In fact, my online RSS consumption is heavily skewed towards the morning.  I get up and read most of my blog entries for the day between 8 and 11 AM before settling into a pretty low, steady rhythm throughout the rest of the day.

There’s a small bump again at 5 PM, but that’s it.

This is interesting to me.  I usually get in to work at around 10 AM (or a few minutes later).  Am I that unproductive/distracted for the first hour I’m there?  So often, I’m up at least an hour before we’re out the door; why don’t I do more blog reading at home before I head into work?

Is there a settling period at the beginning of the day which helps me be more productive for the rest of the day?

Another interesting facet of my Google Reader trend data is the fact that my blog reading over a week is a bell curve: I read the most items on Wednesdays and it peters out about evenly in both directions from there.  I can understand that I may not do as much blog reading on the weekends, despite having more free hours.  But why the bell curve?  Do I need blog posts to make it through the middle of the week?

One last fun fact: in the past 30 days, the only hour between 7 AM and midnight when I have seemed to completely refrain from any Google reader usage?  10-11 PM.

Figure that one out and you’ll figure me out.