Strategies to avoid internet information overload

I don't 'manage' the amonnt of information I get, as such. I just stop when I'm full.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=964 (yahoo most emailed)
http://blogdex.net/

If I need more political news, then I go for ABC's The Note:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

I used to use Metafilter but it seems less useful these days. And of course ILX gives me interesting things.

It analyses thousands of blogs and picks out each days 'bursty' themes, phrases, people and links.

Unfortunately, the links thing is not as good as it could be, as it looks like people are spoofing blogs just to make the tickets and posters they want to sell appear at the top of the list.

(This is my first post since April 12th, and my first use of a computer since then too)

Anyone tried these copernic products (the only working "search agents" that I could think of)? :
"copernic summarizer" creates concise summaries of any document or Web page
"copernic agent" search engine who also do filtering, grouping and summarizing
"copernic tracker" software that monitors Web pages and notifies you when they change.

a flash animation proposing a future of media

Who would want "objectivism" if it were there to be had, anyway?

"Whether Google or Microsoft wins, the implications of a single firm’s controlling an enormous, unified search industry are troubling. First, this firm would have access to an unparalleled quantity of personal information, which could represent a major erosion of privacy. Already, one can learn a surprising amount about ­people simply by “googling” them. A decade from now, search providers and users (not to mention those armed with subpoenas) will be able to gather far more personal information than even financial institutions and intelligence agencies can collect today. Second, the emergence of a dominant firm in the search market would aggravate the ongoing concentration of media ownership in a global oligopoly of firms such as Time Warner, Ber­telsmann, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation."

Hmm. (Though my advice above still applies.)

I hate it when I visit an interesting, informative, potentially useful site, but when I try to return to it days or weeks or months later, I can't find it because my memory is so bad and the internet is so big. I tried to solve the problem by bookmarking everything that I could possibly want to access at a later date, but now I have about 5,000 unsorted, untagged bookmarks, so even when I remember having bookmarked a page, I can't find it in my bookmarks menu half the time, and I have to google it just like I would if I didn't have any bookmarks in the first place.

@unregistered... try using http://www.delicious.com/ for links like that.

just bookmarked it, thanks ;-)

that delicious firefox add-on looks awesome, actually, and not just because of the organization aspect. I can't count the number of times I've lost all my bookmarks due to browser issues, so it'd be helpful to have a backup just in case.

i really like delicious and still use it almost every day but after a wile even with tidy usage of "bundle of tags" it gets sort of too big. same thing with my usage of a personal wiki. what motivated me to start the thread was also a question of method with processing information, like rhizomatic writing. maybe deleuze readers have something to propose about that writing style +web 2.0