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2014/05/272014/05/27

Howard Rheingold: Hacking RSS to Reduce Information Overload with Filtering Tools

Since Google ditched Google Reader, RSS has receded from many people’s awareness. Yet RSS and versatile RSS readers such as NetVibes continue to exist, and if you want to learn information skills to support attention skills, you can do no better than Dawn Foster, who can tell you simply and step-by-step how to arrange for …

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2014/04/182014/04/18

Howard Rheingold: Filtering – from Information Deluge to Context with JP Rangaswami

JP Rangaswami’s thoughtful series of blog posts on the why and how of filtering online info-flows is a fundamental infotention text. Instead of Scooping all seven, I’ve Scooped this blog post by Jon Reed that summarizes and links to all seven parts. Filtering JP Rangaswami – from information deluge to context Jon Reed diginomica, 7 …

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2014/01/112014/01/11

Howard Rheingold: Seven Principles of Information Filtering

Filtering Seven Principles Filtering is essential to the info-handling side of infotention, and JP Rangaswami is one of the few people I look to for deep and broad thinking about infotention issues (Harold Jarche and Robin Good are others who immediately come to mind). Consider adding his blog to your RSS aggregator: confused of calcutta: …

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2013/12/272013/12/27

Howard Rheingold: Information Wrangling — Seek, Sense, Share

Bryan Alexander takes off from Jane Hart’s personal knowledge management routine to describe his own method of handling information overload, which he calls “information wrangling.” He works through channels and sources daily, reflects, and shares. Alexander details each of these processes in his blog. Bryan Alexander My daily info-wrangling routine Jane Hart describes her daily …

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2013/12/242013/12/24

Howard Rheingold: Information Overload

I’ve scooped before about Ann Blair’s book of pre-modern info-overload — and what was done about. This is a nice short musing about today’s information overload discourse. Information Overload, Past and Present Dan Cohen The end of this year has seen much handwringing over the stress of information overload: the surging, unending streams, the inexorable …

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2013/08/102013/08/10

Howard Rheingold: YouTube (7:31) Precision Information Awareness for Emergency Responders

Infotention comes to a community for whom it is literally a life and death manner. This video introduces a dashboard for emergency response professionals. “The Precision Information Environment (PIE) Activity Awareness Environment was designed to improve the information synthesis process by bringing in multiple, disparate data feeds and sources, extracting features of interest and visualizing …

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2013/07/142013/07/14

SchwartzReport: Media Disinformation, FISA Court Improprieties

There is something very wrong about the narrative of the Edward Snowden story. I agree with this essay. Everything is focused on Snowden and not on what his leaks have revealed. A story with profound implications for our society has devolved instead into a kind of thriller movie script. About the Reuters Article GLENN GREENWALD …

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