Comments on: Open Thread: Avoiding Infomania

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Master Your Information Manifesto: 21 Tips to Deal with Info Overload «

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:00:54 +0000

[...] discussed this at length in the past. We can argue endlessly about whether a high amount of information and [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Pulling the Plug on Information «

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Pulling the Plug on Information « — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:00:48 +0000

[...] our previous discussions of avoiding information overload (and the contrarian notion that overload is good for you), most web workers have focused on ways to [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Zen and the Art of Attention «

Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Zen and the Art of Attention « — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:42:57 +0000

[...] and the Art of Attention Conventional web wisdom (CWW) says we’re suffering from infomania and so we need to firewall our attention. But what if the CWW is wrong? What if the answer to too [...]

By: Reformacija » Open Thread: How Do You Cope with Web-Induced Attention Deficit Disorder?

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:24:18 +0000

[...] online can sure make a person feel scatter-brained. Too much information and too many possibilities overwhelm our ability to focus. Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell thinks [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Bring on Information Overload: It’s Good for You «

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:29:22 +0000

[...] for You The latest in contrarian thinking asserts that we are not, in fact, suffering from information overload. It might even be good for us. From the BBC’s David Reid: In fact, there is even some [...]

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Open Thread: How Do You Cope with Web-Induced ADD? «

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:34:20 +0000

[...] Do You Cope with Web-Induced ADD? Working online can sure make a person feel scatter-brained. Too much information and too many possibilities overwhelm our ability to focus. Psychiatrist Edward Hallowell thinks [...]

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By: Mike Gunderloy

Mike Gunderloy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:43:11 +0000

Thanks for reminding me about Touchstone, Nick – they’re one of several players in the “attention” space. My big worry about depending on that sort of service is that I’d lose the benefits of serendipity: what if I subscribe to something like Touchstone and it learns too rigidly what I’m interested in, and I stop tripping over wonderful new stuff? But of course there has to be a balance between filtering and looking over the walls to see what’s going on elsewhere.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:43:26 +0000

In the end though I have a feeling that someone like google or some hot startup is going to develop algorithms that allows us to see the most important stuff too us on top and everything else only when we have the time for it.

Actually, the folks of Touchstone have something similar in the works. Their goal is to create a software that creates an attention profile of the user and filters incoming news feeds accordingly to show only the items most important to the user. Touchstone is currently in 'almost beta' as they call it, which I think can be applied for by subscribing to the newsletter.

By: Technogeekboy

Technogeekboy — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:21:37 +0000

I think we can all control the flow of information on the Web and through RSS. We can simply choose not to read it if we’re busy. We can also restrict our e-mail checking and turn off any pop-up alerts if we want. And we can send our phone to voicemail. What we can’t control is people walking up to our cube entrances unexpectedly and interrupting us. I have no way of stopping it. I can’t close a door and lock it behind me and I’m not allowed to work from home. I’ve been praying for the day when corporate America abandons the “open office” concept and gives every office worker a huge productivity boost by giving us a door to close.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:30:04 +0000

Gmail and Google Reader are my main information filters at the moment. I echo Alex above, using the built-in analysis in Reader can help identify feeds you don’t use/rely on that often.

The problem is that at work, I can only use Outlook (security restrictions). There are also little to no RSS feeds on our intranet. So at the moment, I am still trying to figure out the best MO while at work (not entirely a web-worker…yet).

By: alex

alex — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:14:06 +0000

Be ruthless about what you let in your info stream. I am constantly reviewing my blog reader. Asking my self do I really need to read everything that comes out of boing boing, or is this new blog really that interesting.Also google blog trends is becoming a huge help because I can use the statistics to see blogs that I didn’t even know that I wasn’t reading.

I am trying hard to make everything move through a single source. Right now I am at email and RSS. I can get almost any information delivered to me in those formats. But its not enough. I want my doctors appoints to show up and I want him to put them in there. I want my bank statement to be in my RSS feed. I want my homework to show up in RSS.

In the end though I have a feeling that someone like google or some hot startup is going to develop algorithms that allows us to see the most important stuff too us on top and everything else only when we have the time for it.