Monday, May 15, 2006

Information overload, thy name is my.name Just when I've been planning a summer of organizing my lists of "Web 2.0" services that are supposed to keep me organized -- particularly the news sites that let me point other people to stories I found interesting, or see stories that people who have the same pointed/pointing relationship with the news point me to... Ow, I'm getting dizzy as that sentence with "my news this" and "my news that." Fortunately, The Wall St. Journal has sorted it all out for me. Well, not exactly. But its "Me, Me, Me" story (free, with a tease to a pay-only package) does have a pretty good non-geek's overview of a recent crop of news-sharing or news-personalization tools, including these: Rojo.com Newsvine.com Findory.com Reddit.com Digg.com Memeorandum.com Feedster.com PubSub.com Backfence.com Oops... So much for getting organized -- I just realized that I've only used about half of those, and not often. Besides, I'm still trying to sort out the usefulness of Del.icio.us from Newsvine and Kaboodle. Which reminds me... I haven't checked my gmail or Yahoo aggregator (and mail) in weeks. And I suspect Bloglines is still counting up tens of thousands of stories it thinks I want to read, based on "subscription" addresses I fed it two years ago, when I was writing a review of aggregators, including the two I still use most... which I haven't even opened today. And I don't plan to. Enough is enough. Fortunately, my RockyTopBrigade link keeps me in touch with folks like Rex Hammock, who appears to read more than humanly possible -- and who pointed me to that Wall Street Journal story today, after he heard about it through his aggregator's subscription to Steve Rubel's blog, which I know I'm already aggregating somewhere around here... 2:08:48 PM

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