Step One : Stop wasting time all willy-nilly. Decide when to do it, and stick to your decision. Step Two : Mute your friends who post, tweet or plurk without any substance (or update too frequently), but are still awesome. Save those streams for time-wasting time. Don't add their feeds to your feed reader. Make it so you have to force yourself to type in their account's URL. Here are a couple of my favorite sites: Newsified 's Newspaper view of Digg Ninjanuity 's Plurk Stream Here's a new site that has potential: Trending items on Facebook without actually having to go to Facebook. It's Trending (Not sure yet how frequently the content updates, though.)