As for my input, I guess I was saying I’m prepared to be a ‘beta tester’ if you have any new ideas …

Obie: I find del.icio.us people to add by: (a.) I meet someone and hunt down their del.icio.us, or, more likely, (b.) find their blog and then hunt for their del.ico.us account. In truth, I’m one of those “Google Stalker” people: if I encounter someone interesting, I hunt down all of their URLs.

Niels: I keep getting the feeling I’ll have to start using Google Reader sometime soon, as much as I’ve liked the transition from web to desktop aggregator since last Fall. Yahoo! Pipes would be good to. I can see how it’d be nice for stripping out crap in feeds (decorations, etc.) to enable river of news.

Ric: which Twitter comment do you men? I think your input is structured well, unless I’m forgetting something I said otherwise ;)

Any way I can help ’structure’ my input better?

That combination is pretty close to what you are describing, and I guess with well targeted del.icio.us subscriptions and some fine tuning in Yahoo Pipes things can get even better

Google Reader really makes this work. My subscriptions are tagged by subject, one or two tags per feed so I have a clear folder structure. Actually, Google Reader in combination with the Macbook trackpad. Without 2 finger scroll, this would not work as well.

The folder structure makes it easy to go back to something too, though Google could improve this by making read items searchable.

This way I read between 2 and 300 items per day from about 100 feeds. Not too crazy, but the information is varied and usually quite interesting.

The crown to Google Reader is starring and sharing. I use the star feature to gather articles that I want to get back to later, but have no time for when I just want to get through half a days worth of new rss items.

Yahoo Pipes is something I haven’t heard you talking about yet. I only use it for one part of my info stream, and there, it’s all I was ever looking for. Example, I like reading auto news sites, was subscribed to Autoblog for a while. However, at the astronomical pace at which those guys write articles things quickly became overwhelming. I have always wanted to just filter out the items that talked about my car brand..

Autoblog’s feed categories did that part of the way, but then yahoo Pipes came along. Now I have Pipes aggregate 3 car new sites, filter them for my interests and give me just those items in one feed. Brilliant!

Until then, I borrowed a book from how I organize emails. I used to get tons of non-spam emails. Many were to me, many more where ccing me or sent to a list of which I was a member. I created two rules… one that put the CCs in a CC folder, another that put the list emails in a lists folder. Everything in my inbox was thus something where I was on the To: line.

For feeds I divide things into two buckets - Read Daily and Everything Else. Google Reader shows me a river of news if I click on the Daily folder or I can open that folder and click on a given feed.

Everything Else contains things I like but don’t care if I miss for a few days.

Now, how I find things to subscribe to… well that’s easy I… uh, hang on, the phone’s ringing. I’ll be right back… really!