Was thinking about this concept in relation to services like Twitter, Google Alerts, RSS feeds, and the like: where you have information streams which are constantly being updated and broadcast to you. What are the best, most natural ways for a human being to comfortably navigate and emotionally relate to massive sets of data?
Hearing windchimes outside on my neighbor’s porch struck me as a good analogy. Windchimes are basically an instrument fueled by chaotic patterns, which turns tides and streams in the air, directional currents, into pleasing “information” in the form of musical tones. I suspect something similar applied to information sorting would work well as a background application. Depending on the tones and intensity of your digital info chimes, you’d be able to monitor whether your streams and nets were working for you, whether you were catching the kinds of information you wanted to attract and giving you assignable information about its importance and urgency.
Just add this one to my wishlisxt, I guess.
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I’ve been weeding my timeline in Twitter because it was commanding way too much attention. De-cluttering the people I’m following seemed hard, but it has been worth it.
I have found that about 30 follows is optimal for my purposes. No point in trying to stay abreast of the entire damned world.