My brain hurts. There’s too much to keep track of on the Internet. Blogs, ezines, newsletters, forums, news sites, mailing lists, social networks. It’s a wonder my head doesn’t explode on a daily basis. What’s a busy web geek to do?
Here are ten ways I can think of to deal with information overload:
- Read only the top stories highlighted on Techmeme.
- Put all the blogs and news sites you want to read on Google Reader and ignore everything else.
- Rely on your geekiest friend and get all the top news from him or her.
- Read a news aggregation service like Yahoo! News or Google News.
- Read only News.com and miss out on all the hype on new companies that may change the world.
- Read only TechCrunch and hear about hyped-up companies that may not exist a few years from now.
- Read only The Onion and attain a higher understanding of life and the world.
- Read only this blog and attain utter nirvana and pure bliss (tee hee).
- Move to Alaska and learn how to ice-fish.
- Shut off your computer and go for a run outside, you lazy bastard.
How do you deal with information overload?
How about Digg.com? It’s the top news from the community!
Oh yea! How could I forget about Digg.com! *smacks forehead*
There’s also popurls.com and it’s rip-off alltop.com, which are aggregation sites.