Mileage varies in Google Reader. For instance, I get through 22,000 items from 1,000+ feeds each month, rarely weeded, and most feeds are uncategorized.

My strategy is divide & conquer. I put Reader in list view and then space bar through the posts very rapidly, hitting ‘s’ when something looks interesting. This lets me skim through tons of posts without stopping.

Once I’ve starred all the best stuff, once a day I’ll go into my starred items and do a more thorough browse, possibly opening posts in other tabs.

I only weed feeds when they post a large volume and their signal/noise ratio is out-of-whack.

Thought this strategy might be useful to others. Thanks for posting about Reader! So many people seem to avoid it for some reason.