Info overload
The more content you queue up for yourself, the more time you need to take to sift through those articles, links, posts, etc. to find the worthy content and make sense of it – let alone make creative use of it. Indeed, one researcher has concluded that too much information can make you dumber, and another has found that intelligence directly corresponds to one’s ability to ignore “noisy” information and focus in on “signal” content… As the internet continues to grow, there will be more and more need to devise techniques to digest the content, and ideally this would result in a variety of tools that could be combined on the fly to best augment a personal browsing workflow.
Yes! We need techniques to get the right content, we need attention services, we need social services… Will Microsoft show us the way? Persistent Search?
