Help Me Scale Back My Digital Life - Part 2 - (3 years later). Three years ago I asked how to scale back my digital life and got some great answers. But, three years is an eternity in tech time. I'm not so sure I'm any better with all this than I was way back then. Now we have Twitter, Facebook, Voicemail-to-text, text messaging, online storage, blogs, RSS, online this and online that. Has it all helped us become better organized? Or, has it made us become more deluged with choices to where we are more scatterbrained that ever? So, from 2006 to 2009, with all the new toys (for better or worse) - again - how would you help me scale back my digital life?
posted by Gerard Sorme on May 13, 2009 - 18 answers

Dealing with RSS news feed information overload? [more inside]
posted by wastelands on Mar 5, 2009 - 14 answers

I have spent years reading self-help books, productivity blogs, self-help productivity blogs. I’ve found some treasured information and they have probably helped me in more ways than I’m conscious of, but… [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 14, 2008 - 10 answers

I need RSS backlog management advice. In my RSS reader (Google Reader) right now are 213 subscriptions with 3,852 unread items. I'm really hesitant to dump them all. I've prioritized them as diligently as my current categorization scheme will allow, but I'm definitely open to other schemes. Your advice? [more inside]
posted by grrarrgh00 on May 2, 2007 - 15 answers

Help! Lately, I have found that technology has truly become a burden rather than something that is fun and productive for me. I have multiple email addresses, domains, Flickr accounts, del.icio.us accounts, Bloglines, on and on and on. It has got to where I am so deluged with information that I have found my mind going to mush. It's almost scary......no, scratch that....it IS scary. However, I think the above may be the reason. Good old, "information overload." I know that sounds so cliché - but it's all too real for me. Can MeFites help and offer ideas to scale back and maybe offer ideas for doing as much as I possibly can through the interface of ONE SITE? I'm slowly going crazy trying to "keep up," proving, for me at least, that less is probably going to be more. Thanks in advance.
posted by Gerard Sorme on Jul 2, 2006 - 23 answers

I often feel that there are tons of books interesting books I want to/need to read, exhibitions to see, websites to visit, movies to watch, news items to research etc. just to keep in touch with the world and not enough time whilst handling everyday life. How do you deal with this feeling or the problem in general without panicking about it? [more inside]
posted by keijo on Mar 29, 2005 - 47 answers

Miguel's Spoilt for choice thread led me to wonder how/when/why the term 'information overload' originated. Have we always thought that we have too much information to deal with? [More, ironically, inside] [more inside]
posted by carter on Mar 15, 2004 - 3 answers