Being in an information profession, I feel obliged to keep up with what is going on in information technology, books, librarianship, and many more topics... It can get to be overwhelming at times. After opening Google Reader only once over the weekend, I opened it tonight to find 621 unread items. Three of those were personal (facebook notifications) and 2 were comics that I read through Google Reader (I read the other comics when I opened Reader last night...) So the vast majority of the 621 items have something to do with technology, librarianship, books, young adults, or other aspects of my job.
One trick I've started to use is to subscribe to a blog for a week or two to see if the posts are useful. I've unsubscribed from a few because they were less useful than I wanted them to be. I think it will be easier to keep up with these things after I'm finished with school - that gives me a lot of information to absorb as well.
I recently saw an article by Sarah Houghton-Jan from Ariadne magazine on "Being Wired or Being Tired" - it had some great tips on handling information overload.
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