Change of tact

I've been using Google Reader for a good few years now, and find it very useful but also often find it overbearing. I see a blog or RSS feed that talks about an interesting topic, and I subscribe. I've changed my tact on this, instead of subscribing to the feed, I'll subscribe to the topic. So, I define a term, and subscribe to be told about anything containing this term.

This can be done on a lot of sites:

• Google News
• Google Blog Search
• Wordpress Search
• Twitter

I'm sure there are others - and I'll probably end up oversubscribing in that fashion, which will prompt another change of tact.

Of course, there are feeds that I'll keep direct - friend's blogs, blogs that are targetedly about specific subjects, etc...