If you're just reading, reading, reading, reading, then you're not going to get much out of the reading. If you take a few minutes after each article to correlate the information to your own experiences, you'll get more out of the article. Thats why I try to leave behind a comment to each blog/article I read. Like right now!!

Its sort of lik the difference between going to class, listening to the lectures but never doing any of the homework, as opposed to going to the class, and doing the homework each night.