I just turned 30, and with that took the decision of what I wanted to be in life. Miraculously my rss-feeds followed suit. I subdivided as follows:

• communication and general news - where I subscribe to important stuff like mail, and feeds that offer important news. For the latter, that includes: NYTimes, BBC, HBS Knowledge.
• Then I subdivided into topics, relevant to my career-choice: e.g. marketing, logistics, commerce, howto, etc.
• And then the last two are friends (co-bloggers), and just-for-fun-blogs.

And then there’s another step. A la GTD, I try to make what I read actionable. Either I see something cool and blog about it, or I see something cool and I either bookmark it for my blog-readers to read (in the form of weekly links (which I also evaluate before posting)), or I print it out, read it, process it, and perhaps blog it. If I notice that after a few weeks I don’t ever read a specific feed, I either delete it or move it down the page and promote other more interesting ones.

To summarise, I took 3 steps: 1. formed a goal - what do I want to achieve? 2. subdivided my time into modules supporting that goal; and 3. evaluate by making items actionable.

Though I don’t want to jinx it for myself, this system has worked really well for a few months now. However, step 1 really is the hardest, and step 3 is no piece of cake either.