Comments on: So What Do We Do With All This Information?

By: suzi w.

suzi w. — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:31:00 +0000

the boing boing line made me laugh out loud. You win my "first laugh of the morning" award.

Yes, this is so important. I seriously need to go look at my Google Reader, and yes, probably just mark all as read.

(If you tell me, I forget. If you make me laugh, I remember.)

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By: Prince

Prince — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:50:16 +0000

Justin – Great thoughts. Enjoyed reading the comments as well.

There are two principles which help me make sense of Social or civic or dynamic media, whatever you want to call it.

Darwinism – survival of the fittest – only the relevant, only the truly useful information will survive. The owner of that information will become the influencer, and hence will have a real shot at monetizing his “influence”.

Selective absorption & selective retention – We have been conditioned to use the least amount of energy to perform a required task. So, we will filter out stuff we dont think we need. Hence, disseminate information that is consistent with your strategy for being in the “statusphere”.

Till next time,
Keep sharing!
Prince

By: Simplicity Is Killing Us

Simplicity Is Killing Us — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:07:19 +0000

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By: The Conscious Life

The Conscious Life — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:27:01 +0000

Excellent piece. Though it’s never easy to balance the crave to know-all and desire to express ourselves, I’d say majority of us slant dangerous towards the first group. We absorb so much but never got the chance to express them, at least not right away. So it’s important to have a way to capture stuff that you find useful so that you can access them later down the road.

But again, over-consumption of information can take up a lot of time and becomes a problem by itself as what Justin has said. So consume based on your needs as well as the time you’ve are the ways to go. In other words, get a life!

By: Mohan Arun L

Mohan Arun L — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:03:29 +0000

For RSS reading, you could ‘mark all as read’ and shrug and forget about it. But what about the constantly incoming barrage of emails? You really might miss something if you dont keep up with your email reading regularly!

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:19:43 +0000

I’m with what Ian says, but with one additional insight.

Some of our sharing is for other people, some of it is for ourselves. Sometimes it’s hard to tell. I may share (or save) 1,000 things. I may only use 20 of them. However, I might only pick 10 of the 20 at some future date.

On the other hand… the high volume of sharing is making the paradox of choice a reality on Twitter. With so many options, which do we chose? How do we keep up? Many of us just don’t even try. So I can see your side as well.

I’d rather that people shared than not sharing at all.

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