Quick information filtering tip for people dealing with information overload and lots of useless information coming in from feeds: * make an excel sheet, with

Quick information filtering tip for people dealing with information overload and lots of useless information coming in from feeds: * make an excel sheet, with the following headers "name","total posts","interesting","assets","valuable","significant","added" (day you added the list to the excel sheet) then the computation columns "% interesting", % assets", %valuable" "score","total days","posts per day" organize your feeds by channels (interests like Software Business for Hacker News is what I have it under) of things interesting to you... score = (# valuable * (#significant * 50))/(posts per day) Hacker News currently has a score of 86 for me. When reading feeds on the total I just add the # unread, go through, if I come across an asset (resource/site/service) I mark it (not used in score because those can be found easily later), same with valuable to me, or significant (changed perspective, therefore would be difficult to just search for) now that you can see what information is flowing in , what its fulfilling, and they scored against each other -- sore apples will fall out of our list rapidly (reddit and such would never survive...) and when you find some new feed, new resource, within a week or so you start seeing how it compares. works for me, great results.