Information overload is one of the biggest hurdles you’ll have to deal with on the road to being more productive. There is so much out there and it’s so damn easy to spend hours sorting through your favorite blogs and Web sites.

true!

I went through a phase where I really felt overwhelmed by the amount of news coming in and amazingly huge number of unread items I’d have.

I have that symptoms too!

If you’re interested, I’ve got a few tips that have helped me keep control of the information, stay focused and actually get more out of the blogs I do read.
Please!

1. Group your feeds by order of importance.
2. Set aside a time (or times) during your day to read.
3. Use “mark all as read” liberally.
4. Weed your reading list on a regular basis.
5. Set your newsreader to check only a few times a day.
6. Make use of services like Del.icio.us, Digg and Technorati to find those diamonds in the rough.
7. Slow down and read.
8. Ditch a few link blogs.
9. ..if you read lots of blogs in the same space [you are] unlikely to miss anything you really should be reading.
10. Understand that a day not paying attention to blogs is a day you can spend doing something productive. They’ll be there when you get back.

Thanx To-Done, I'll give it a try. [via helge]