In her new book “An Altar in the World,” bestselling author Barbara Brown Taylor writes about “the practice of paying attention.” She explains: The practice of paying attention is as simple as looking twice at people and things you might just as easily ignore. To see takes ti...

It’s become a truism that our interactions with technology are changing the way we think and act. But the big question is how exactly we’re being changed. Some say it’s evolving us into higher functioning humans, while others claim our hyper-multitasking and reliance on technology ...

This is a guest post by Shawn Kirsch, better known as thattalldude on just about every social network. Shawn is an awesomesauce social web lover who gives great tips and suggestions via Twitter. This is his story on Information Overload.      I am an information junkie. It isn...

What’s the best way to sort, wade through and make sense of the oceans of digital media that’s stored on our hard drives? Inspired by musician Bill Drummond’s experiment of only listening to music starting with B for a year, Russell Davies is testing out the same filtering strategy...

Image via Wikipedia The Online Information Paradox - DaniWeb TechTreasures by Ron Miller Yesterday, Seth Godin wrote a post in his blog called, Warning: The Internet is almost full. It's not of course, and he had is his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, but he brought up the very serious idea of i...

A new report from Nielsen finds that television viewership is on the rise (at least in the US), hitting record numbers last quarter in terms of viewership, despite gains in web and mobile video consumption. The report found that users are watching an average of 142.5 hours of television per month, a...

Uh, wow. Back in June, I was all happy when my blog reached 10,000 visits. Much of that was friends and new repeat visitors, and it wasn’t counting that many unique hits. Sometime in the past few weeks, I passed 10,000 unique visits, and I had a nice inner Woo-Hoo! for that. Still, last week b...

While god is in the details, a helping god clearly is not in all of the details. Some details have Yama and some have Soma. This is why geek type people who possess too much information aren't so nimble and effective in making decisions as their managers are. Plotting a graph between information and...

A new web service called filtrbox, clams that it can cure Information Overload.It monitors different services such as friendfeed, blogs, news and twitter.Monitors via web dashboard, RSS or email.Sounds cool. www.filtrbox.com Filtrbox eliminates the need for multiple monitoring tools Monitor mainstre...

I feel like a whore when I look at my long list of Facebook and MySpace friends. I don’t know most of these people. I look at my news feed on Facebook (my lukeisback@gmail.com addy) and it rarely tells me anything about anyone I care about. Reihan Salam writes on Slate.com: What should yo...