Yeah he lost me when he started saying that I'm doing it wrong just because I subscribe to high-volume feeds.. Years ago I came across someone's excellent stra

Yeah he lost me when he started saying that I'm doing it wrong just because I subscribe to high-volume feeds.. Years ago I came across someone's excellent strategy for organizing Google Reader under two top-level groups: * Must Read * Can Miss Under those 2 labels I have other classifications, but those are the two main groups that all my feeds fall under. The low-volume or high-importance feeds go into "Must Read" and the rest goes into "Can Miss".. Can Miss is for skimming, for catching up on the last few days of high-volume feeds or just for finding something to read through when I'm bored.. I regularly hit "Mark all as Read" on the "Can Miss" group, and I don't feel bad about it for a second, nor do I feel like I am somehow using RSS incorrectly. But the "Must Read" label contains feeds that I really want to make sure I read all of, or don't miss anything from.. Like infrequently updated blogs, security update RSS feeds, some serial web comics or web shorts, etc.. In the last several years I don't think I've even once hit "Mark all as Read" in that label. So while I agree that if your current approach to RSS is leading you to ignore most of what ends up in your reader, you might need a different approach, but that approach doesn't have to be "don't use RSS".