I have a category for frequently updated/consistently interesting blogs that I read daily (i.e. 43folders), followed by a few conceptual groupings (i.e. flickr contacts, friends’ livejournals). The rest of the blogs (of which there are by now an obscene number) get randomly assigned to a set of arbitrary chunks. Lately I have started limiting myself to one chunk a day. For instance, today I might check in on the activity in Chunk 1. Tomorrow Chunk 2…and so on until I am back to Chunk 1. I currently have five chunks, each with a bite sized sampling of content.

I went this route mainly because I got tired of trying to meticulously catalog each blog (does this belong in lifehack/productivity or maybe there…well really it is both…). It has the added benefit of curbing my reading habbits (remember: one chunk a day) so I don’t waste an entire afternoon trying to slog through all 400 unread entries. Also, it somehow seems more exciting sifting through a random assortment every day. It’s like rummaging through that $5.50 dump-bin at Wal-Mart and discovering, beneath all the Dolph Lundgren dvds, the lone copy of Blade Runner.