Complaining via Twitter
Complaints about how overloaded everyone is reading blogs have moved over to Twitter. I guess that bloggers are so overloaded that they don’t have as much time to blog about how overloaded they are.
Is Everyone Overloaded?
We have written about this before. And I’m sure I could easily write yet another post on how overloaded everyone is. How there is a consensus that there is a problem. But you know what? I don’t really feel like talking about problems any more. I feel like doing something about them instead.
I’ve got the same RSS overload that all these other people have. But I don’t want to bitch about it. Steve and I wanted to write some software to fix it. And, now we’ve done that. Or at least a first crack at doing that.
The Bscopes Challenge
What we really need now is experience and feedback and usage. So I’m issuing a challenge to all of those overloaded bloggers and RSS readers whose tweets and posts I linked to above. Come sign up for Bscopes (the free account is fine, but if you want to sign up for a Gold account we won’t complain). Load in a ton of RSS feeds. Then start looking at individual Bscopes and group Bspaces.
Once you’ve started looking, let us know if what we’ve built really does help reduce your overload or if we are just full of it. Submit a comment. Send us an e-mail. Tweet your thoughts. Even write an entire blog post if you like.
We have the same problem. So we built a tool to help fix the problem. We think we’ve got something here. Now we need to find out if anyone else thinks so. So… talk to us. Unless, that is, you are too overloaded to get around to reducing your RSS overload 
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The main culprit for me is Tech crunch they have a really high volume low quality feed; but they have a few interesting stories that I don’t want to miss.
I saw that our blog post was mentioned in your post above (http://www.adnerds.be/index.php/2009/02/27/why-we-love-information-overload). I must admit that I think you are right: there is lots of complaining and little people trying to do something about it.
But that was exactly what we tried to describe as well
. I pointed out that I am very pleased with all this information that I have/want to absorb every day. And that I have some tricks on how to make it easier for me to filter what is relevant and what isn’t.
I am even writing a blog post and a presentation about it, to share with anyone interested about how one can see through the clutter and filter more easily.
Anyway, I like your approach and will definitely check out B-scopes. Good luck with it!
Just wanted to set this straight
In my job as a CIO, I’ve been working on tackling information overload with mixed results. My company, a professional services firm, suffers more than most because of a couple of infrastructure problems that arose from a couple of mergers.
I’ve been trying to get my colleagues to acknowledge that attacking our information overload problem will improve our overall knowledge sharing collaboration efforts and also contribute to our bottom line. But some people here just don’t understand the extent of the problem.
I just read about information overload awarenesss day and I’ve signed up our company as a participant and designated site – I hope this will get my point across to my colleagues and help them understand what we can do to improve our overall position relative to information overload. For others in my position (and I’m sure there are many of you) I encourage you to do the same, Information is available at http://www.informationoverloadday.com