So I’ve been reading over 450+ feeds for the best part of 2 years now and have come up with a system to ensure that I always get round to the essential ones.
When I discover a feed it goes in the ‘SharePoint X’ bucket. I have 3 other buckets ‘SharePoint Priority 1’, ‘SharePoint Priority 2’ and ‘SharePoint Priority 3’. I ensure that I always every day keep up to date with the 1’s and without fail by the end of the week clear 2’s and 3’s.
Then X’s I read whenever I get a spare 30 mins etc as I can often have a backlog of 300 posts…and to be honest a lot of guff e.g.“SharePoint Designer is now Free'” or “Get your SharePoint Skins” or “cut and paste jobs from other blogs”.
How I rank them
As I keep finding myself bookmarking posts from a particular blog, I move it from the X bucket up to the 3, and then up to 2 etc. Now obviously this part is my own personal preference and interests.
Although the list of 1’s, 2’s and 3’s maybe personal to me, I think that the overall list of SharePoint Feeds is essential and guarantees now “guff”.
Tweet Tweet Tweet
You will notice if you follow me on Twitter that I tweet about my favourite blog posts! These posts obviously will mean that the blog will get into 3’s straight away. You can follow my favourite posts on Diigo by subscribing to this 
RSS feed or following them on Twitter.
The SharePoint Z Bucket!
I also have a ‘SharePoint Z’ bucket where feeds that continually reset themselves and go from all posts read to like 150 due to them all being updated due to migration. Believe it or not there are some that seem to constantly do this! Please be aware of how your RSS feeds react to changing old posts!
PostRank
I tweeted about PostRank today and also have had it on my blog as I find it useful to indicate what posts are popular for my readers. I mentioned that this should be an essential before for all blogs. Recently they have given the ability to import your OPML files (XML list of RSS Feeds) to share them with others. What this does is also produce stats on who subscribes to what feeds to match you with people that are similar. Post Rank has a very sophisticated way of measuring the posts, to be honest a lot more than Technorati does.
What tool do I use
Well I was an avid Google Reader guy for a long time, but then when I got my tablet just found it a little slow and travelling a lot meant that I was offline a lot in the air. So NewsGator FeedDemon is the tool of choice for me. To be honest though, after seeing the integration PostRank has with Google Reader, I may be changing back soon! ;-)
Conclusion
So, all in all, I think if you want to get into keeping up to date you can use these SharePoint Feeds as a starting block…be interested to hear what others do to manage their feeds!