I get ignored every time I ramble on about this but, river of news is the way to go for most feeds. No read/unread guilt, very liberating. - mikepk

I'll stop at some point... :) Lived with the read/unread guilt for so long, so much happier now. (sounds like an infomercial :) ) - mikepk

I read a ton of sources, and I find that it's easier to monitor by genre with categories and tags. Maybe when I'm not newsmaking for a living I can switch to the river concept. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Just mark em all read, it will fill up again tomorrow. Grazing information is key, don't try to eat it all :) - Soulhuntre from twhirl

I probably follow several thousand feeds in total. A very small number (5-10) go in the feed reader that I really want to read everything. I found I was working waay too hard managing all my subs, it becomes a game of diminishing returns (IMHO). Then again, you're in a different position since your job really is more about reading everything. :) - mikepk

I got thousands of unread items - no way to keep up, but I don't feel guilty about it - only so much you can absorb in any given day - Frederic

I'm just desensitized to "1000+" - Mitch

1000+ triggers "mark all as read" for me. - Mo Kargas

@Mo - But what if you miss something?!?!? - Mitch

Let go... breathe... :) - mikepk

The tags and categories help out a lot. Even though there's some great stuff in there right now, I'm avoiding my gadgets category like the plague. Reading about gadgets is an indulgence for me, and I simply can't keep up with the volume coming out of CES right now. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I also subscribe to alot of blogs (313) that net a 1000+ items every day. I treat my RSS much like twitter, I use grouping to make it easier to get the the content that I consider "must reads" and the rest I either have time for it or I don't. I take the river analogy one step further, somedays I have time to go swimming other times I don't. I mark as read and keep going. - Keith - @tsudo

@tsudohnimh that's more or less my modus operandi. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins from IM