I got a chance today to update my Yahoo Pipes RSS feeds to reduce some of the content I look at.
Digg Stupidity Filter (run pipe) removes idiotic stories from the general Digg news feed. Specifically, these stories tend to include Ron Paul, marijuana, Mike Huckabee, and meta-stories about Digg itself. I’ve also added a few regular expressions; stories containing all capital letters or repeated punctuation marks (“!!” and “…” come to mind) generally aren’t worth the read.
The Onion (No A/V Content) (run pipe) takes The Onion’s RSS feed and removes all tagged stories with audio or video content.
If you like these ideas, please feel free to check out the rest of my published Pipes. What also has helped my newsreading lately is creating folders in Google Reader, and grouping similar blogs (Engadget and Gizmodo, and Kotaku and Joystiq for example) into meta-categories “Gadgets” and “Video Games”.