John Naisbitt first spoke of it in MegaTrends in 1988.

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It’s taken 20 years for the tsunami of rich media to begin to become an everyday problem. But Naisbitt cam be congratulated on some insightful forecasting. Even though John couldn’t have foreseen the waves of consumer generated content that results from social media he does acknowledge that we are all “drowning in information and starved for knowledge”. Something, oddly, he says he doesn’t suffer from.

thanks Gerd

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Tonight, I was chatting with Corvida, and the topic of RSS feed overflow came up.  We were both frustrated because there was so much new (potentially great) content being produced every day, that we couldn’t keep up! … I’m looking forward to this, both because it hopefully will make my RSS feed reading more manageable, but also because I am adding a huge social filter 

content overload

In addition, I will make sure any feed I add gets sent as a tweet from Toluin to the mix.

Loook…it’s all freshly ‘plain’d for your enjoyment…

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There are only so many hours in the day, and, as it stands right now, every single one of them could be filled just consuming and interacting with content, social media, and web services. There’s also this little thing called “going outside” that we would like to take part in, too. Hopefully we’ll see the killer web app to filter the noise someday soon to help us do so, but it’s definitely not here yet.

Sarah Perez

ReadWriteWeb, May 14

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if the whole social web is facing an attention crisis then we can’t possibly hope to resolve any issues. If all anyone can stand to read is three paragraphs how can you hope to convey all that you need to in such a short space. It’s a mirror to the argument over discussions on Twitter as opposed to those on FriendFeed. The 140 character restriction on Twitter prohibits meaningful discussion either due to the lack of space in a single post or because parts of the conversation will become spread out in the timeline. MORE

In Marshall’s article today at ReadWriteWeb, he articulated a path of data, attention and trust pivoting on the issue of data portability, a great read.

In late 1999, a company called PrivaSeek developed a lockbox for user data, a white hat effort renamed Persona. We had $67 million in VC cash to build the tools but timing and the CEO view of the market was distorted just enough to miss the points Marshall articulated so well. It should have been about the experience but a toolmaker culture failed to persist thru the Internet bust.

There are those of us in the Boulder area who were MatchLogic Excite@Home and DoubleClick dataminers that have answers and experiences staging to manage a personal experience that make data, attention and trust a business and a brand. Our brand, if we can foster its growth to the point of calling it a brand, will amplify the power of YOU, the way its should be.

Loook for it, its coming.

Let’s reward companies who trust us with our data by giving them awards, a seal of approval they can boast about, a way of identifying those services that will survive the purge that’s certainly coming.

Dave Winer