Posts about reading
Dealing with information overload
How I skim my "high volume" feeds: information overload from Clint Ecker on Vimeo. I've long thought it would be interesting to make a video of how people with tons of feeds skim them and pull out interesting information. This is my "high volume" folder which holds posts from sites which post 10+ more items a day and which I could "mark all as read" and not miss much. When I skim through these posts, this is how I do it. Each post probably gets less than a second to catch my attention. You can definitely see which posts get ...
Posted on: 2008 March 28
Filed under: Internet, Technology
aggregation, aggregators, feeds, googlereader, information, informationoverload, reading, RSS, skimming
New blogs I'm reading
As I mentioned in my previous post, my new organization system has allowed me to check out a bunch of new blogs and I really wanted to post here about the sites I'm keeping in case other people might be interested in checking them out. HorsePigCow - This is the blog of Tara Hunt. She's co-founder of Citizen Agency in SF. The Ministry of Type - Another typography blog, but I like the pace and subjects showcased here. Andrew Mager's Blog - Virginian, now lives in the bay area, works at CNET. Loves to get his photo taken with people. ...
Books I picked up over vacation
While in DC and visiting so many museums, my imagination and curiosity was piqued on a number of occasions. Living in my programmer / consultant / marketer's brain for such long stretches of time really starts to divorce you from interesting reading material. Last year I made a special point to read a number of seminal science fiction books (Ender's Game series, Snowcrash, Neuromancer, et cetera) and I hope to read a bunch more this year. From DC I picked up a few, and you can probably guess where I got each. Here they are, click the photos of the ...
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