How Do You Keep Up With All This Stuff?

The title of this post is a question I get asked all the time. Not only at my college, but at presentations I've given around the country. This is a screenshot from Google Reader's Trends feature. As you can see, I subscribe to 170 blogs and have read over 10,000 items in the last 30 days. I've learned how to go through these 10,000 items very quickly - starring stories that are interesting and worth coming back to later; sharing items with with other Google Reader users that are "friends" or "followers;" and finally emailing stories to real friends that are not Google Reader users.