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Does Web 2.0 make you shallow?

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2006-05-11T13:37:00+00:00

Editor and Publisher's David Hirshman writes:

"I realize more and more that my up-to-date knowledge of events has actually become shallower, and that the information doesn't affect me all that much. Twenty-two dead in Iraq bombing. Married magazine editor caught with call-girl in airplane bathroom. An event pops up, gets knocked around the blogosphere for a while, enters my consciousness, and then fades out just as quickly."

I don't find this to be a huge problem, but I'm guessing that many people do. I tag important things into del.icio.us but all too seldom go back and refer to them later. I happen to be lucky enough to remember a lot of things well after reading them, or even skimming them I suppose. Still, I know that with 500+ feeds, IM notifications on some feeds, and a crazy amount of emails - there is a lot I'm probably not absorbing as well as I'd like to. Have other people found good methods of avoiding this problem? I don't think that cutting down on the amount of information we access is the best response, there has to be some cool memory tricks out thee. What are your favorites?
Via Cyberjournalist

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FeedRinse filters RSS feeds

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2006-03-27T17:37:00+00:00

Filed under: RSS, attention

FeedRinse is a new service that lets you set up keyword, author or tag based filters for RSS feeds. It plays nicely with OPML too. Very nice UI, good company blog, nice features, fair pricing for premium service: I feel good about FeedRinse. The bookmarklet doesn't seem to work for me, but everything else does. I'm told that this is processor intensive stuff, so good for them taking it on. A very nice feature that we don't have to hack and work around to make happen any more. I'll be subscribing.

People say they are going to be acquired soon, I think that's just a sign of enthusiasm for the service. I'll add this to my list of services I think Feedburner ought to acquire, but I won't be betting on it.

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Listmixer is perishable bookmarks

Marshall Kirkpatrick — 2006-02-23T02:23:00+00:00

Filed under: social bookmarking, tagging, attention

I think I like this new app Listmixer. Its bookmarklet saves a URL for me, lets me tag and describe it - and if 30 days ever go by without my looking at it, the link is deleted from my account. I can hover over any of the links and get a menu for tagging them into del.icio.us, furl, newsvine, reddit, simpy, blinklist and more. And I can grab my archive by RSS.

The functionality is smooth. The look is humorously unpretentious. I'm not quite sure how I'll fit this into my work flow yet, but I have a hunch it's going to find its place. Sites I'd like to subscribe to, for example, would be great to just tag into a temporary archive. If I haven't followed through in 30 days, then I probably wasn't that interested in the first place! It's the handy work of Sid Stewart and I discovered it via eHub.

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