There’s so much content on the web that making sense of it becomes a priority.
Option 1 is to stop going to the content and let it come to you…RSS feeds, alerts and personalised news filters like Google News or Yahoo Pipes can help you filter what you’re going to read for example…
Option 2 is to summarise what you’re reading so that long articles become smaller and more digestible…of course because they use algorithms rather than human editors they are not 100% accurate. That said, tools like Corpora’s Summarize! claim to be 85% accurate…They also offer tools useful to heavy news hounds that track stories and make intelligent guesses about the sentiment in the story (i.e. if it’s positive or negative) and that can cluster similar stories into groups…
I suppose if you read both more efficiently and more relevantly then you would gain a knowledge advantage over the next person…