1. Choose the right feed reader.

2. Use folders or pages to organize your feeds.

3. Evaluate feed structure regularly.

4. Unsubscribe from feeds you don’t need.

5. Take advantage of time-saving shortcuts.

6. Only read feeds when your have time.

7. Determine which feeds are “urgent”. 

8. Take advantage of your reader’s other features.

9. Discover new feeds with sharing options.

10. Use Firefox extensions or Greasemonkey scripts.

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Step 1: Activate Aardvark by right-clicking on a page (or use the bookmarklet in IE or Safari).

Step 2: Highlight the desired text (e.g. the article, blog post, etc.) using the “wider” and “narrower” functions.

Step 3: Use the “isolate” function to focus the text.

Step 4: Use the “remove” function to erase any leftover undesirables (e.g. ads, blog comments, etc.).

Step 5: Use the “de-widthify” function to change the text layout to maximize the width of your screen.

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1. investigate different blog readers
2. Try resizing your browser thin column about 8 words wide
3.  record how much time you spend reading each of your blogs or blog 
4. set time limits and times when you’ll read blogs
5. Limit feeds on a particular topic.
6. Periodically test your feeds. 
7. Organise your categories  by importance and/or reading frequency.
8. Add a ‘quarantine’ category for new blogs. After a week decide whether you really want to keep
9. Add an ‘ignore’ category for blogs that you no longer read
10. Consider subscribing to only a subset of a person’s blog.

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