RSS and newsreaders

I like the idea of being able to tame the WWW and Web 2.0 by using the feeds to filter in what I really am interested in. I have enough trouble trying to answer and keep up with regular e-mail. But I think I love the idea of the RSS feeds to generate only the information I'm interested in. After taking the tutorials, the process to add feeds to my Google Reader was way too easy. I think one could easily subscribe to more information quickly than they could possibly peruse. In fact, I may have already done that! I try to watch the news every day since I like to keep up with what is happening. Maybe this will be easy enough to read at a glance and delve into the stories that most interest me. Those were the main ones I subscribed to. But I thought the search tools were all pretty overwhelming. I am not sure I need this much information all the time! Especially the blogging feeds. I am just not sure the time needed to read the blogs is worth the nuggets of information that can be gleaned from them - especially during the school year. I was a member of LM-Net until my e-mail address changed and even though I only received a few e-mails per day loaded with new posts, I still couldn't keep up. That said, I really did enjoy the archive feature and I feel like that maybe I will be able to use this feature with some of the sites I added to my Google Reader. I think the most confusing tool was the Syndic8. I seemed to be going in circles trying to choose just what I wanted. I ended only adding one thing, (Health Made Easy) from that site that I thought would be particularly useful. I finally went to Dallas Morning News and added the categories that I thought I would like. My plan is to take notice of news feed icons on the sites I generally use and add them. I think they will be so much more valuable to me at this time. Perhaps I will also subscribe to Flickr or some of the web applications associated with that. All in all, this has been a breath of fresh air and a hope of taming the black hole of time one can spend at the computer.