I moved into a new neighborhood recently and am still getting used to all the noises outside my window. There is a train in the distance, a woman laughing loudly to a mans muffled joke and the buzz of a helicopter flying a bit too close. It’s funny how you can become used to these things and they almost become part of being home. I find that I often can’t sleep without those sounds when I’m away.
It’s noisy out there and just as noisy in here as I sit down to write a blog, scan Twitter and check out Facebook and Flickr. But again, I’m used to the noise. I expect it.
There was an article on TechCrunch recently comparing the current online social sphere to the noise and spam that was once the search landscape. “The online social landscape today sort of feels to me like search did in 1999. It’s a mess, but we don’t complain much about it because we don’t know there’s a better way.”
I don’t know about you, but I need a better way. I am mentally exhausted after weeding through all that content, spread across so many sites, to find those few pieces of information that are actually useful and add some value to my day.
So, what do we do?
How do you sift through the noise to find good information and make connections?
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