Comments on: Soylent Green is Filters

By: Quora

Quora — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:24:00 +0000

What are some good strategies for dealing with information overload?…

There are a few things I do to ensure I’m not overwhelmed with information or spending too much time on knowledge acquisition.

Use People as Filters
Whether it’s on Facebook, Twitter or FriendFeed (which is really where I get the most benefit) I use…

By: Facebook Friend of a Friend | The FriendFeedification of Facebook | Blind Five Year Old

Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:47:53 +0000

[...] Using people as filters. Information discovery at its best. [...]

By: Unfollow on Twitter | My Imaginary Unfollow App | Blind Five Year Old

Unfollow on Twitter | My Imaginary Unfollow App | Blind Five Year Old — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:37:31 +0000

[...] Tweets are Retweets. This could, in fact, be a good thing if the quality of your Retweets is high. Human filters are a good thing and I thank folks like Atul Arora, Rob Diana, Louis Gray and Mahendra for their [...]

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:06:35 +0000

Excellent post AJ. I oversubscribed on friendfeed last year and wasn’t able to automatically unsubscribe making it useless as a learning and listening service. I culled my twitter input stream down to 50something and was amazed at how much more useful it became.