I appreciate your provocative stance - intriguing. I think the hard part is evaluating a piece of information (no matter what the source) to estimate its value to ourselves. And that evaluation must take place. The second part is integrating the information into our existing set of knowledge, i.e., “learning.” This also takes work, even more, in fact.

So there are no short-cuts. Yes it helps to have intelligent filters (e.g., a highly trusted blog), but as information sources skyrocket this becomes harder. My own pet peeve: Once-a-day blog posts. *Nothing* is so important that it should be written about daily, unless it’s an emergency. Even (especially!) news. Try this experiment: Stop listening and reading all news (tv, radio, web) for one week. Then assess what you missed. My experience: Nada. If it was important, you’d have heard of it from friends or family.

> You can preregister if you want to be informed upon launch.

Well I’ll certainly know something if the product is never launched ;-)

Death by useless information overload!