<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eaebe616-5ccd-4159-8246-b6c865da3d78/79A7B88A-EBBC-4976-8477-3BCA4A1AD217/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/" href="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.keenerliving.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/">If you are a fan of using Google Reader (GR), as I am, you might think it would be good to subscribe to some news sites in GR</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><STRONG>Will that satisfy your craving for news updates?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/">Maybe, but you sure will be flooded with <STRONG>a lot</STRONG> of headlines. And many of these will be of no interest to you, and many will be essentially duplicates (example: 8 updates to one story on the latest war in the Middle East). On top of that, the items are not presented in any order of importance.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><P>To me, this is not a good way to present daily news information. My own preference would be to view one or more of the following a couple of times a day:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.cnn.com/">CNN.com</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://alltop.com/">Alltop News</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://popurls.com/">Popurls</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://addictomatic.com/">Addictomatic</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/">The latter three of these are aggregators:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/">They are good for providing information-at-a-glance.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"> <A href="http://alltop.com/">Alltop</A>, it has information available in over 400 topical areas. So, you can find just about anything you are looking for there.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/">check out Chris Brogan’s <A href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-alltop-powers-bloggers/">excellent write-up on Alltop</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.keenerliving.com/processing-information-when-theres-too-much-of-it/"><A href="http://www.edelman.com/">Edelman Digital</A>, is an expert on information processing.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/79A7B88A-EBBC-4976-8477-3BCA4A1AD217/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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