The meaning behind the meaning
Information overload. Declaring e-mail bankruptcy. That little red number of unread RSS feeds staring at you from your dock that keeps rising, making you feel like you’re falling further out of touch.
This blog is about finding meaning in all that noise.
It’s a cause that’s close to my heart, and what I’ve been doing for years as a journalist. Much of a journalist’s work is separating the informational wheat from chaff and putting it in coherent form.
We now all have far more noise to deal with in the age of 24-7, real-time information. And there are also lots of new tools to help deal with it all.
Technologists speak of the semantic Web, social search, smart aggregation, Web 3.0, personalization and other innovations. We all await the magic algorithm that will provide just what we need to know about the people we most care about.
I’ll talk about attempts to do that and whatever else strikes my mind around this topic. I hope it’s useful and look forward to engaging with you — and hopefully not adding to your noise.
Thanks,
Burt
burtherman (at) gmail (dot) com
http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/2009/herman/
@burtherman
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