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Ignorance is Bliss in the Information Age

Posted on 26 May 2008 by Joe Holmes

too many computersOf late, I seem to be having trouble with finding information for my posts.  Now don’t get me wrong, I have loads of sources.  In fact, the sheer amount of sources is the problem.  What with delicious, my RSS feeds, my twitter, my friend feed, Addictomatic, and of course the indomitable Google, I find myself lost in a bewildering and overwhelming information forest.  It the opposite of the old adage “can’t see the forest for the trees”.  I can’t see the trees for the forest! 

There has been a lot of buzz of late about “information diets”, and I never really understood until now.  In order to swim in this surging information stream, you have to be able to tame the currents.  I have begun to find my own ways of taming the currents:

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