Yesterday you learned how to become a Twitter power user and today I want to show you how you can consume tons of information from your RSS feeds in a short period of time.  I think this is a critical skill especially if you want to follow a lot of different feeds and don’t want to spend your entire day doing it.  One of the questions you’ll hear asked of the A-listers is how do they manage their time throughout the day with all of the content they create and that they consume.  This is one of those ways.

My preference for an RSS reader is Google Reader.  I like Google Reader because it allows me to use keyboard shortcuts so that it increases the speed at which I can go through my feeds.  It also allows me to link up with other people and read what they find interesting and choose to share with me.  This cuts down on some of the feeds I have to subscribe to and also exposes me to other new feeds that may be of interest to me.  I currently subscribe to about 200 or so feeds and usually scan/read between 300-600 posts per day.  Of those I try to share the best and leave comments on a handful of them.

Two videos helped me to increase the speed at which I’m able to consume this much information and I think they will be helpful to you as well, especially if you’re just starting out.  Check out these two videos, one from Chris Brogan and the other of Robert Scoble being interviewed by Tim Ferriss.

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I hope these videos were helpful to you in some way.  Do you like these types of posts?  If so, what other types of hacks, tips and tricks would you like to learn about?

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