brownstudy: Thanks for the clarification.

Richard: Great points, all - search feeds (mine are via Google, and included "personal productivity," etc), the high cost of high-volume feeds (I've also unsubscribed to feeds that are too much - in fact, I think one a week is a *fine* rate!), Google Reader (doesn't have the critical feature of feeds for email subscriptions), and that it's OK to miss (some) posts. Thanks for reading!