Most discussion boards these days publish feeds for each thread. But I never really took advantage of this feature until recently. I’m sort of a stickler for keeping my feeds organized, and feeds of this sort seemed to cut across the grain. But I simply created a separate folder in Google Reader called “Threads I’m Following,” and now that’s where ephemeral things go, saving me to trouble of surfing to the sites themselves to see if there are any updates. It’s stupidly simple, but it saves a lot of time.