I was just read­ing an arti­cle from Site­Point (via their RSS feed, iron­i­cally) about max­imis­ing your social media time. I thought this lit­tle snip­pet was kinda funny:

Be Picky: I sub­scribe to a lot of feeds (well over 60), but I reg­u­larly review what I have com­ing in, and I’m ready to unsub­scribe when I lose interest.

No mat­ter which way I think about it, “well over 60” is not “a lot of feeds”. I thought I’d take a peek into my Google Reader stats:

From your 450 sub­scrip­tions, over the last 30 days you read 14,149 items, starred 278 items, shared 14 items, and emailed 0 items.

Hmmm. I don’t even think of 450 feeds as a lot. Some of them are aggre­gated, but on the other hand some of them are sta­tus feeds (Cam­paign Mon­i­tor, Google Alerts, Face­book etc). I know peo­ple who sub­scribe to far more.

Using Google Reader, I’m able to skim through all the items and flag what I want to read – and from the stats above, 278 items flagged out of 14,149 is 1.9% – and it doesn’t take more than about half an hour. It’s one of my early morn­ing tasks and it’s some­thing I enjoy a lot.

Of course, I have a mas­sive back­log of flagged items that I want to read in more depth, but I like to think I’m sav­ing them for rainy after­noons or plane trips or something.

The con­tent of those feeds is mas­sively var­ied – from tech blogs, comic strips, food blogs and pho­tog­ra­phers to music feeds (lots of music feeds) and a sur­pris­ing num­ber of non-geek blogs.

What about you? What’s in your feed reader?