A few months ago Connie Reece did some serious pruning on her Google Reader, which was choked by an overgrowth of blog feeds. One day she decided she had officially hit Information Overload. she was either spending so much time reading that I had no time to write, or I was feeling guilty for clicking on “mark all as read.” Choices were difficult, but she managed to cut back to 50 RSS feeds.
Now She’s Trying another tactic: cutting RSS feeds even further, yet increasing the number of blogs she’s able to read, through Twitter, Instapaper, Alltop.com and a couple other sites
Information overload
Very true. And also the fact that more information is incessantly created gives us an opportunity to invent better methods to mine the information.
Personally to effectively cope with the incoming streams of information I’m using my summarization application. At a click of a button I get to see the essential keywords and the most important sentences. Over period of time I found that looking at the instant information capsules gives me quite useful insight and saves me a lot of time. If you would like to try out summarization this is the product link: Context Organizer from Context Discovery Inc.