Thing 5 - Readers and Aggregators

I have often wondered how people stay on top of all the blogs, organization's websites, tweets, etcs.  That is a whole lot of information coming in, sometimes on an hourly basis!  How do they have time to keep up?!?!  Now that I've played with the Google Reader, I see exactly how this is possible.  If all the information is in one place to check and it's all updated and managed in folders, then it makes it streamlined and easier to stay on top of.  At first, I was thoroughly confused with the site - I struggled to understand exactly what it did and how I was supposed to use it, but with a little insruction reading, playing around, and just plain blind guessing, I was able to get it right and see how useful a tool this is!