The smart people think about "ignoring"

You REALLY can't read everything.

For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.

At Internet Evolution, Cory Doctorow laments the passing of the “time when I could read the whole of Usenet,” notes how the proliferation of sources means he is now “acquiring information on a probabilistic basis,” and calls for technological help:

...adaptive systems that create a gray zone between “delete on sight” and “show this to me right away.”

In the comments (which, BTW, are ordered most-recent-first), Matthew Cornell included a link to a post (and discussion) on his blog from early this year: Information provenance - the missing link between attention, RSS feeds, and value-based filtering. Go there for a good statement of the problem, and reports of efforts and experiences from others.

Previously, marking a milestone:

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