February, 2012

Drinking from the Firehose

When RSS feeds, readers, and aggregators were new, the manner of presentation was often referred to as a “River of News.” In the modern internet era, now that almost everything you could ever want to know about is available almost instantaneously online, what once was a “river” is now a flood, or, as some have taken to calling it, a “firehose.”

So, faced with this deluge of data, how do you cope? There are certainly many ways, so I’ll just cover the method I use.
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