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  Michael Hartmann    Premium Member

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  Bit Literacy - Filtering is the best thing

  Marc Hurst's talk about Email management adressed an issue that should have been solved already. How long are we using Email already and still didn't come up with a good solution to that. Pretty bad- isn't it?
  
  And now there are RSS-Feeds that give us even more information to read and process. How do we act with that? Sure you can use tagged RSS-Feeds to get only the new messages that you are interested in but you still need to process them all.
  
  A friend of mine, a psychologist, thinks the best strategy is to filter and avoid information and those how are best at that will be better of in the future. But I don't know a software yet that allows you to filter very good. Most do just collect.
  
  • 01 Jun 2006, 7:03 pm
  Michael Hartmann wrote: > Marc Hurst's talk about Email management adressed an issue that > should have been solved already. How long are we using Email already > and still didn't come up with a good solution to that. Pretty bad- > isn't it? > > And now there are RSS-Feeds that give us even more information to > read and process. How do we act with that? Sure you can use tagged > RSS-Feeds to get only the new messages that you are interested in but > you still need to process them all. > > A friend of mine, a psychologist, thinks the best strategy is to > filter and avoid information and those how are best at that will be > better of in the future. But I don't know a software yet that allows > you to filter very good. Most do just collect.
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  Bill Liao    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Re: Bit Literacy - Filtering is the best thing

  I think also that a ot of people suffer not form too much information I think they also suffer form the concern they might loose information which is why gmail, openBC and flickr are comforting in storing everything :-)
  
  I knwo that i have lost precious photos to damaged hard disks and that flickr is now a great relief to me.
  
  • 01 Jun 2006, 10:27 pm
  Bill Liao wrote: > I think also that a ot of people suffer not form too much information > I think they also suffer form the concern they might loose > information which is why gmail, openBC and flickr are comforting in > storing everything :-) > > I knwo that i have lost precious photos to damaged hard disks and > that flickr is now a great relief to me.
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  Michael Hartmann    Premium Member

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  Re^2: Bit Literacy - Filtering is the best thing

  This is true only as long as you use services that will continue over a longer time. I heard about some unfortunate situations when people stored their information on start-up websites that didn't make it and thus discontinued their services. What then if you can't get the information back on your hard drive.
  
  I personally do store a lot on the web cause I think they do a better job archiving than I could do. But still I keep a copy on a DVD each half year to make sure I do have a second archive. You never know.
  
  I don't think you can miss too much on the web. I do have two IT news websites on bloglines and what bothers me is that about 50% of the news are covered on both sites. However, I still do subscribe to both of them. I would rather have only the one 50% of one of those sites that I don't know yet - but that's not possible.
  
  • 02 Jun 2006, 12:34 am
  Michael Hartmann wrote: > This is true only as long as you use services that will continue over > a longer time. I heard about some unfortunate situations when people > stored their information on start-up websites that didn't make it and > thus discontinued their services. What then if you can't get the > information back on your hard drive. > > I personally do store a lot on the web cause I think they do a better > job archiving than I could do. But still I keep a copy on a DVD each > half year to make sure I do have a second archive. You never know. > > I don't think you can miss too much on the web. I do have two IT news > websites on bloglines and what bothers me is that about 50% of the > news are covered on both sites. However, I still do subscribe to both > of them. I would rather have only the one 50% of one of those sites > that I don't know yet - but that's not possible.
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  Bill Liao    Premium Member   Group moderator

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  Re^3: Bit Literacy - Filtering is the best thing

  Filtering is becoming more important not less in my opinon and yes I agree as well do not trust your data to a startup that has no business model.
  
  I am also interested in how the privacy of data is goign to shape up as an issue because even though people do nto think about privacy right now I am sur ethey will start if others start to abuse the open nature of a lot of web 2.0 stuff.
  
  • 03 Jun 2006, 09:00 am
  Bill Liao wrote: > Filtering is becoming more important not less in my opinon and yes I > agree as well do not trust your data to a startup that has no > business model. > > I am also interested in how the privacy of data is goign to shape up > as an issue because even though people do nto think about privacy > right now I am sur ethey will start if others start to abuse the open > nature of a lot of web 2.0 stuff.