Results tagged “aggregators” from Knowledge Jolt with Jack

James Dellow has an item on Being Ruthless with one's information. And then he links to a deeper discussion of the culture of information overload. This gets me thinking about the tools that help combat the problem too.

Amy Gahran says, "I want one place for all my content: Pipe dream?" She mentioned this at BlogHer as well.

In describing RSS and aggregation to my students, I came up with a useful metaphor of streams. Feel free to borrow and adapt this.

George Siemens has an interesting comment about how decentralized communities could work - or how bloggers would like to see it work.

Merlin Mann has "2 ways to make RSS readers smarter:" 1. Per-feed expirations and 2. Smarter Dinosaurs. The readers are getting there.

Steve Borche of Connecting the Dots has an idea for "smart aggregators." This is something I've been looking for as well for some of the same reasons, primarily information overload.

"Effective Online Forum Usage" by Steve Pavlina. Along with listing the benefits and negative effects of excessive forum usage, he provides a list of suggestions for overcoming the negative effects while still enjoying the benefits.

George Siemens talks about changes in the world of media in "Centering Agents." The beauty of the new publishing paradigm is that I can choose what and when I read new information.

Brian Livingston wraps up his series in IT Management on Picking The Best RSS Client with the entry on desktop-based aggregators. With this entry, he has discovered the same thing I've found.

Brian Livingston has an upcoming set of articles on aggregators, starting with this week's overview of the current marketplace, RSS Readers: Narrowing Down Your Choices. I'll be looking for his forthcoming articles on web-based and desktop-based readers.

Brian continues thinking about aggregators, Aggregation Control Spectrum. He suggests a thought excercise, wondering how to combine classic aggregation with web feed search tools.

I am inspired by the comments to Lee Lefever's original "What's Your RSS Reading Strategy?" I'm going to start using Outlook search folders to find topics in my feeds. In another vein, do any aggregators let me read articles by tag?

I am trying to suss out this question of how best to use aggregators to read blogs. And along comes this piece in Worthwhile from Kevin Salwen, Email Holiday.

A definition of an aggregator that sounds just like the description of a portal. And isn't that what aggregators provide?

Searching the web for useful aggregators to replace NewsApp.