What I do is just scan the headlines and be sort of picky about what I actually read. Of course this depends if i’m busy or bored that day. I do also sometimes star good articles to come back and read later.

The only message here is maybe to cut the RSS feed of WWD. This very post is part of the problem of cluttered up feeds. Thanks for nothing.

And I use trends very much. Checking % read and number of feeds per day you can cut down. every week i monitor that and try to cut down atleast 2-3 everytime.

You can also decide number of feed you want to read in whole day so you dont spend lots of time so others you can just unsubscribe.

But as you said I can never stop reading my RSS feeds. I get all news from different topics from different sites so fast which actually saves time not wasting time.

Also, look at your Google Reader Trends and unsubscribe from feeds are aren’t reading.

“I wouldn’t have seen this post were it not for Google Reader. :-)”

Ditto!

Twitter is a poor way to follow news and websites. The benefit of an RSS reader is to keep track of what you have and haven’t looked at. I don’t want to manually scan a huge list of tweets and have to discern headlines from friends’ comments. I won’t follow Twitter users who sole purpose is to post links to their blog entries. There’s no added value there.

1. Check RSS three times a day max;
2. Three’s a crowd: Limit feeds to a maximum of two from each category;
3. Add, test, filter.

Like any system of productivity it takes discipline but it works for me.