The issue of judging the accuracy of what you are reading is a good point, I’d never really thought about that aspect.

I tend to use a service, such as Delicious as a way of recollecting things I have found interesting. My brain seems to be able to work much better searching for “portfolio agency yellow” than it does trying to remember the URL, so for that I do find it helpful.

My RSS reader is also at 1000+ and I probably have the same habit as you, which is to dip in to the latest 10 or so every now and then.

I’d like to think that what I am reading gets stored somewhere (if if, as you say you can’t remember a word the next day)

I think it’s down to personal habit and methods of dealing with this information though. I follow around the 350-400 mark on Twitter which I regularly prune and tweak and it gives me the right balance for me. Much more and it’s updated too fast. I have signups on so many apps and new services that fade away in no time.

I’ve tried things like Pinterest, Zootool, Delicious etc but I just didn’t use them much and now don’t bother because for me it’s a layer of noise.

I do find however that my RSS reader has become something I dip into daily. My habits there have been that often I find someone on Twitter, check their site and blog and I subscribe to many blogs where I actually don’t bother following on Twitter. I have no fear of the 1000+ articles unread notification in Google Reader, I view the RSS feeds as something that is a little less urgent than Twitter and I like dipping into those articles occasionally.

J.

For the rest of the ‘web content’ issue it just comes down to time; and I’d apply the same rule I do to off-line content:

If you’ve got time to read it, and it keeps your interest long enough for you to finish reading it, then it was worth reading (even if you don’t remember a word of it the next day).