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Re: louisgray.com: How You Handle the Information Overload Is Up to You

Henry — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:27:00 -0000

Adding to the AideRSS filtering I could further recommend summarization application. I'm using Context Organizer to summarize my reading material. When at a click of a button I see the keywords and the most important sentences - that helps me to quickly decide how useful the information is. In my experience summarization helps with finding specific information in a sea of disparate content and is critical in quickly focusing on the most relevant information. For more see: Context Discovery Inc.

Re: louisgray.com: How You Handle the Information Overload Is Up to You

Samidh Chakrabarti — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:01:00 -0000

I totally understand the anxiety of having a piece of software filter *out* certain RSS items from your reader. There's always the worry that something important may have gotten axed. It would be like subscribing to a newspaper and finding certain pages missing.

But what about instead of filtering out RSS items, we used intelligent software merely to *sort* the items by predicted level of interest? Would you be more comfortable with that? You'd still have access to the entire universe of information, but you'd be able to scan it more effectively. Through simple feedback, I bet you could train a pretty good sorting algorithm customized for your likes/dislikes.

Re: louisgray.com: How You Handle the Information Overload Is Up to You

Peter West — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:01:00 -0000

Louis,

Excellent item.

I have never understood the complaints about RSS and information overload.

The analogy I like to use is reading a newspaper. You wouldn't read every word from front to back. You scan headlines and zero-in on items of interest. Exactly what I do with Google Reader (and another helpful approach is entering keywords in its search box).

Appreciatively,
Peter

Re: louisgray.com: How You Handle the Information Overload Is Up to You

smilbandit — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:03:00 -0000

I feel the same way. I was getting info overload but decided that filtering just wasn't the answer for me. I went and built my own rss reader with tag support. So I weight tags and feeds and get the info that I specify is important to me. I've been documenting it at http://tubejumper.com.