Information Overload
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I spent three hours today looking for inspiration to write three short posts. I started with my favorite sites, newsletters, and blogs. One thing referenced another, then another, and before I knew it, I had spent a considerable amount of time reading interesting, but useless information.
We are bombarded by information in a multitude of forms: tweets, Facebook posts, blogs, news outlets, printed material, emails, electronic newsletters, YouTube videos. It used to be that we got a lot of junk mail in our mailboxes. Now, we get a lot of junk electronic information. Because this type is easier and cheaper to produce and deliver, we get lots of it. The question still remains: how do we get the information we want without having to spend an enormous amount of time searching for it? One way to accomplish this is to only subscribe to very few sources of information. But, if one of them is the Wall Street Journal for example, you are still in trouble: the amount of high quality information is still beyond the amount of time you have budgeted for news reading and information gathering. Another way is to find a way to aggregate the information or find an aggregator of only the news you want. The third way is to build your own news aggregator for the type of information you are passionate about.
How do find your information? And how much do you spend on searching and reading?
Posted by Terra3.0 at 6/15/2011 10:36 AM 
Categories: Technology, Social Media
Tags: News Blog information social media
Categories: Technology, Social Media
Tags: News Blog information social media
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