As I’ve embarked upon a new adventure and am in the formulation stage by necessity — and of interest since it helps me get even better at connecting the dots — I’ve been investing in research time. It’s key to the path I’ve chosen to be even more on top of the changes and thought leadership surrounding blogging, podcasting, video blogging, RSS, microformats (and all the other enabling technologies and combinations thereof). These developments are allowing us to be better able to tap in to the global conciousness of humankind like never before in history — if there are methods at-our-fingertips to do so.
The river of content is flowing faster and faster. This river of content available on the internet is reaching flood stage and is in a variey of media types. As newspapers, magazines, radio and television lose eyeballs to the internet and become ever more desperate to cling to their advertisers, they are finding increasingly garish and dumbed down methods of getting the attention of the eyeball owners back (which, in my view, will only push people away faster). As broadband continues its adoption and more people get on the internet and attempt to connect their own dots, it’s becoming exponentially more difficult to see or tap in to the collective consciousness and stay on top of changes in an industry, area of interest, or even to stay relevant in the workplace. Primarily it’s more difficult to understand change and to see disruptive technologies or business models coming…and having time to act.
How can you answer the questions or understand the answers over time: What’s going to happen to your industry or your job in the next five years? To your children’s future? To your health, old age, or social and political developments? How will you know and/or see what’s coming? Most importantly, how will you be able to stay on top of what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are up to? 
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