Information overload hurts lots of people & organizations, not only our media clients, but also consumers like me. I mentioned the endlessly growing information which was created or spreaded by Google and Twitter, and I placed hope on RSS/Tag/Search, but information overloaded in my Google Reader.
Last month I increased subscriptions from 53 feeds to 106, all of them are my job&interests related. Ever since the feeds increased, I never read an article once through, "mark all as read" became most frequently used function. More news filled in my eyes, but less information was accepted.
So last night, I spent one hour to reduce feeds to 56, unsubscribe from those keep silence since two months ago, and those talk about things make-nonsense. I also optimized folders and labels: the frequently updating feeds were moved to Quick News folder, IT blogs were grouped into two languages - Chinese and English. Stars' blog were listed in Friends folder now, because I read them as friends~
I have time and patience to read through nice articles now, and I have another finding: there are some news sources that you'd better visit directly websites rather than subscribing, because you don't want lots of ads with articles' summary in Reader. Sites like Netvibes is definitely a nice assistant for this.
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