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Soul Queen
06-17-2009, 04:33 PM
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2009/06/10/viral_culture/index.html

An interesting article about how we are plugged in too much...



Instead of just freely clicking around from site to site to site, and before you know it, you've spent four hours following your whimsy every which way, instead pick out a few sources of information that you feel like are not just crucial and well-done, but also fairly broad based and representative. To me, the most important step is recognizing that you can't possibly take in all the information that's out there. [You need to] make a wise intervention into your information consumption and try to make it manageable so that you can live a happy life and save time for the thinking of higher things.

larryhead
06-17-2009, 05:21 PM
That's a great quote.. reading the article now :)

I sometimes will skim hundreds of headlines in a day (thanks to my RSS feeds), but that is is really just too much info to absorb... and it's bottomless.. so now I usually try to just stay loosely on top of current events (global, local, stocks and tech), and keeping up with friends and family.