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Robert Scoble reads about 622 different feeds a day. That’s a lot of feeds. Of course, he’s not actually reading each item in the feed, but scanning for anything that will catch his attention.

I’m at about 217 feeds and I usually make it through all of them by the end of the day. My technique is different than Scoble’s but the idea is the same. You don’t actually read each feed, you scan through the feed for anything that sticks out depending on what your motivation is for the day.

I’ve taken each feed and labeled them in one of 11 categories, for example, all my political feeds like The Huffington Post and the Drudge Retort are labeled politics. Same thing for technology, green (treehugger sites) and so on. This enables me to prioritize each set of feeds, at work I read the politics first and skip a number of the video feeds.

I show the full feed instead of the list view and let Google auto-arrange the news items. If I find something semi-interesting but don’t have time for it, I star it for later reading or emailing. Other items I’ll read immediately, maybe star it and come back to it if it’s really interesting.

Most items that I like, I’ll mark it to my shared feed for anyone to check out. The shared feed gets little use but I figure that in the future someone might make an app that’ll do something cool with these snapshots of my life.

I’ll post my actual OPML file when I get a chance.

Update: here’s my OPML file for anyone that’s interested