information
It is not information overload, it is information gluttony
Clay Shirky said once that it wasn’t information overload, but filter failure. Although he is right, I think there is even an bigger issue than just failing filters. It is the endless need of people nowadays to consume more data. Since we have the tools to select, to store and archive all the data we want, we just do that. I don’t how many people I talked with last year about the enormous pile of links, webpages, pdfs and other documents they were planning to read. When they ran into something: swoosh…. adding it to readitlater, instapaper, web2pdf or any other service you could think of to store it and to read it later (mainly: not reading it all anymore).
The Truth about Facebook! (2007 video)
via youtube.com It’s an older movie, however keep in mind: you pay with your information and your data for your Facebook experience, the more you share, the better your experience will be and the more value Facebook can get out of it. It might be worth it, and sometimes it is not worth it.
Information vs. Confusion
via blog.sebastianwaters.com Too much information, too little information or just enough information?
Realtime: why it won’t work for me (and for you)
Last week RSScloud was (re)launched. Which enables something like a real-time rss platform. Which is very nice, especially for the geeks (me) and nerds (not me) who thinks that this is the feature they really need to have right now.
Information overload
It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure. Clay Shirky
My OPML (2)
At January 1st I wrote (in dutch) that I already thought the number of feeds I read daily would increase. Here is an overview (OPML) of feeds I read daily (264) and indeed, it increased with +/- 30%. If you think I miss some interesting feeds, do not mind to suggest them to me.
