Good post by Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum about the increasing difficulty of coping with information overload. Too much data--even edifying data, like a good sermon or an insightful blog post--can be a bad thing, Dan suggests: "Listening to too many voices, even when those voices are good, is still the sign of a schizophrenic life."

I certainly won't argue with him. I fight a continual battle to keep my blog reading down to manageable level; I hate removing good blogs from my list of daily reads, but if I don't regularly trim the list, I would just sit and do nothing but read blogs all day. And blogs are just one facet of the information overload we all face each day. I unfortunately don't see any great solutions to the problem of info overload--I can't imagine that the number of voices out there will decrease anytime soon, so the burden's on us to manage our info intake wisely.

What do you do to keep your blog reading (or TV watching, or newspaper reading, or whatever) to a reasonable level? Any practical tips to help those who are feeling paralyzed by the sheer amount of data out there that demands our constant attention?