I know that RSS has made it extremely easy to stay updated on what’s new and happening on all of my favorite websites. My challenge is that I haven’t kept up-to-date on my RSS subscriptions. I’m currently looking at an updated feeds list of 5 figures. Yep! Over 10,000 unread items.

My chosen RSS reader has been Bloglines pretty much since the beginning. I probably tried one or two other ones before landing with Bloglines, but I can’t even remember what the name of them even were.
As I was working through some new sources of information this evening, I started subscribing …read more

More discussion recently with a variety of my contacts and friends about some needed changes related to Facebook. The specific topic at hand revolves around the notifications received from all of your friends. Some you’re interested in and some you’re not. How do you effectively manage that information. Some improvements to the functionality of Facebook may be what’s needed.
I wrote recently about how Facebook could use some organization of how your "friends" are arranged. If we think about it, labeling all of our contacts the generic "friend" in Facebook isn’t a very accurate representation of the levels of relationships …read more

Wikipedia, the world’s free encyclopedia, is celebrating its seventh birthday today. Even though it existed a little before Jan 15, 2001, it was formally launched only on that day. Wikipedia is a multilingual project with currently over 12 million articles. All articles can be viewed and edited by anyone who have access to the website.
I use Wikipedia as much as I use Google, and often visit the site directly for certain kinds of information, before searching it elsewhere. Even though it is constantly criticized for articles especially about various historical events and personalities, it is resourceful in succinctly providing valuable …read more

Image via WikipediaIt’s a fact of life that information overload is not easy to escape. Whether you enjoy playing the license plate game or reading the New York Times on your way to work (Do they sill print a paper?), there is a lot to read, take in and retain out there in this cruel world. Luckily, with the help of many great Web 2.0 tools out there, it’s becoming a bit simpler. I’d like to point you in the direction of a few that I have used to simplify my life.
Google Reader (or any other web …read more

So this post will take a little bit different angle than the last few. See this one is about information. Not the kind like where the latest and greatest porn site is or where Miley Cyrus has shown her booty today… This is the kind of information that can help you in your everyday life. Sites like ReadBurner, Alltop and Technorati are trying their hardest to help you find this information and they’re doing a damn good job at it so far.