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"Not long ago, I started an experiment in self-binding: intentionally creating an obstacle to behavior I was helpless to control, much the way Ulysses lashed himself to his ship’s mast to avoid succumbing to the Sirens’ song. In my case, though, the irresistible temptation was the Internet. But before I began, I wondered about the genesis of the term “self-binding.” So I hopped online and found Jon Elster, a professor of political science at Columbia University, whose book “Ulysses Unbound” explores whether voluntarily restricting your choices enhances or curtails freedom. "

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"We hope to lead and spur the development of extensible applications that help users easily and enjoyably manage their conversations, notifications, and messages across a variety of online services. A central principle behind Raindrop is that messaging should be personal — we want Raindrop to be people-centric both in how we process messages, and in how we can help give people control over their personal data and experiences.

When a friend’s link from YouTube or flickr arrives, your messaging client should be able to show the video or photos near or as part of the message, rather than rudely kicking you over to a separate browser tab. Notifications from computers and mailing lists should be organized for you, not clutter your Inbox or require tedious manual filter setup. It should be easy to smoothly integrate ne"

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"Twingly Channels will bring a new era of news discovery! With a filter on top of the flood of news, we're having a perfect overview of what's most interesting for you right now. Twingly Channels is simply the solution for the biggest problem of the real-time web: information overload."

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"How do you create filters for the real-time web? From spam filtration to relevant discovery, the "filter geeks" at the Real-Time Web Summit today are all about creating simple, rich user experiences.

Hashtags for Twitter are a great start, but how are the startups moving and shaking the real-time web planning on giving users filters to control their streams in ways that make the ever-increasing volumes of information more usable? From Thing Labs and Twingly to PostRank and SocialText, read on for the problems these companies and their users have encountered and how they plan to solve information overload through clever curation and cooperation."

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Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application, by deleting the application, or by restarting the computer – you must wait for the timer to run out.

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Emergency Information Service (EIS) is slated to be a unified communications solution linking citizens, journalists, governments and non-governmental organizations in a seamless flow of timely, accurate and credible information—even when local communication infrastructures are rendered inoperable. This feature will be made possible by utilizing SMS as the communications backbone of the system.

In the event of a crisis, the EIS team would sift, collate, make sense of and verify the myriad of streams of information generated by a large humanitarian intervention. The team would gather information from governments, local media, the military, UN agencies and local NGOs to develop reporting that will be tailored to the specific needs of the affected population and translated into local languages. EIS would work closely with local media to disseminate messages of critical, life saving information.

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Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. See what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now.

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"Successful knowledge management results in a competitive advantage in today's information- and knowledge-rich industries. The elaboration and integration of emerging web-based tools and services has proven suitable for collecting and organizing intellectual property. Due to an increasing information overload, information and knowledge visualization have become an effective method for representing complex bodies of knowledge in an alternative fashion by using visual languages. The focus of this research is the development of a "Visual Wiki", which combines the notion of a textual and a visual representation of knowledge. "

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The massive flow of information delivered by the emerging real-time web has some important inherent value, but building added value through intelligent extraction of information from that flow is the next step that online services are beginning to take. Social interaction design specialist Andrian Chan explored what this might look like in an excellent article today titled Activity Streams: Content and Flow that we'd like to highlight as our Real-Time Web Article of the Day.

"I think there are two distinct trends at work here," Chan writes. "One, the popularity and adoption of the stream as a form of social conversation. And the other, the conversion of realtime information into value that can be consumed outside the stream. Or to put it another way, the value of being in the flow, and of watching it from the river's edge."

In preperation for our forthcoming ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit on October 15th and the publication of a major research report on the topic, we're highlighting one great article on the topic each day and briefing key companies working in this space. Chan's articulation of the things made possible by systems that filter the flow closely resembles what we're hearing from others we're talking to - filtering to add value is going to be key.

We're big believers in the value of the full, noisy flow as well - but the value latent in filtering is just as important.

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ReadTwit scrapes the tweets from everyone you follow and throws any links therein into an RSS feed just for you, with dupes deleted and URL shorteners eliminated. Users are then able to control the display, filter out users, or ban hashtags.

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Death by Information Overload
by Paul Hemp
New research and novel techniques offer a lifeline to you and your organization.
Read the HBR In Brief

Can everyone just stop whining about information overload? I mean, in the knowledge economy, information is our most valuable commodity.

And these days it’s available in almost infinite abundance, delivered automatically to our electronic devices or accessible with a few mouse clicks. So buck up, already!

Wait a second: CanI just stop whining about information overload?

The flood of information that swamps me daily seems to produce more pain than gain. And it’s not just the incoming tidal wave of e-mail messages and RSS feeds that causes me grief. It’s also the vast ocean of information I feel compelled to go out and explore in order to keep up in my job.

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or how stopped worrying and learned to love persistent search

Here's the problem: you want to know when certain things get mentioned on the web, but you're not about to search it every day. Wouldn't it be great if a search could persist over time and alert you when new results appear? Good news--not only is it possible, it's also pretty easy, and by the end of this tutorial, you'll know how to do it.

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witter (Twitter) has a wealth of data – it’s a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable. But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise?

Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we’ve picked out five great tools to get you started.

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Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google Reader

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Identifying top niche blogs is invaluable knowledge for anyone wanting to enter, study or market to people in a particular field. It's one of the fastest and most effective ways to learn the lay of the land and get involved in the community of successful artists, real estate agents or 4-H club leaders using social media. I've been seeing a lot of demand for this information lately so I thought I'd write up some quick pros and cons of the options I'm familiar with. Perhaps you'll add some of your own favorite methods in comments.

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As a result of this fact the real focus needs to be on filtration not, "I cant handle all this information!" Part of information literacy for our generations will certainly be how to manage the various stream of information coming at us. Designers and engineers will continue to come up with amazing ways to filter information, but what is of most interest to me are the techniques and methods "normal" individuals start to develop as information overload begins to be seen less as problem that needs to be fixed and more of state of being. To quote Shirky we need to ask ourselves...

"what filter just broke?"

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Recently, we have been developing a content filtering tool and today we are releasing two variations of it. The first is a collective filter and it can be viewed at:

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Filter input by title, author article, all popular sources or some from a list

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6 Ways to Filter Your RSS Feeds

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We’ve put this page together to provide you with an introduction to PostRank and its features. To get you up to speed there are several tutorial pages with text and graphics, as well as a number of videos.

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