I’ve never felt overwhelmed with the rate of information published to the web, but I know some do. To address those who feel this way, I wrote on the fact that there’s no reason to feel overwhelmed, and in it stated the basic facts that you:
- Are in control how many RSS feeds you read
- Choose who you follow on FriendFeed/Twitter
- Can easily use tools to filter out the noise
- Should never worry about missing something, everything is archived – you can always go back if you’re busy
Louis Gray recently put these ideas and more into a great SlideShare worth clicking through:
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Christopher Ross (6 comments)30 April 09
You’re spot on and if more people realized that they’re in control, I think they’d be a lot happier. I have about 500 RSS feeds coming in but it doesn’t mean that I have to read them all everyday right? :)
Greg (3 comments)30 April 09
I think people sometimes feel obligated to read everything they subscribe to. And then they feel obligated to comment on everything too. Well if I was doing that I would never get any work done. You have to be selective in who you follow, what you read, and how much time you spend doing it or you will absolutely get burnt out.
Chicago Girl (1 comments)30 April 09
I agree that pruning back your email box/rss reader monthly is a good policy to have. If it takes more than an hour to get through emails/newsletters/alerts/feeds in the morning you have too many.
It takes away from what you really want to accomplish each day. I am also always finding new interesting things at the same time, so unsubscribing to the stuff you just end up filing or deleting is important if you don’t want the discovery process to take your entire day.