http://meaningfromnoise.com trying to make sense in the age of information overload Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:43:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So everyone is finally being let in on the party that is Twitter lists. Instead of searching for Twitter users around a topic and looking at what they're saying to decide whether to follow them directly, you can now follow a list and monitor a group of users curated by ... http://meaningfromnoise.com/2009/10/29/twitter-lists-adding-to-the-noise-or-helping/ E-mail is a troubled medium. It's not that it isn't incredibly useful as a quick way to communicate with someone. It's just that everyone is so flooded with messages that they when they don't respond immediately, the message gets lost in the abyss of their inbox, easily forgotten. Mobile e-mail aggravates ... http://meaningfromnoise.com/2009/10/27/not-quite-reading-e-mail/ Facebook sprung a surprise on its more than 300 million users today. It changed what "news" they see when they log on to the site. The updated feed offers two options: News Feed: Which attempts to show you updates relevant to you based on a proprietary algorithm sorting content by who is ... http://meaningfromnoise.com/2009/10/24/facebooks-new-news-feed/ Since this site will be about media consumption, I thought a good place to start would be talking about my information diet, and make that a regular feature. Maybe this will help you, and maybe you have advice to help me find meaning from noise. This way I can also ... http://meaningfromnoise.com/2009/10/23/media-diet/