It helps that I am a speed reader. The big problem is when you miss a day or
two and come back to have over a thousand messages. I generally read back 24
hours and then give up. Also I don't read everything. Some such as lugradio
are more personal and are meaningless unless you know the person and care
about what their pet is up to and baby pics. A lot of it is repetitive, too.
Once you've read it one place then you can skip over it the second and third
time. Then some such as BoycottNovell are repetitive rants that you get
tired of hearing the same old every day.

But it serves to keep me out of trouble and to have a finger on what is
happening in open source. I tweet and dent what is worhtwhile so that others
can keep up too.