This is an awesome post. I think everyone is facing this problem to one degree or another – and I think you have articulated better than most!

We have been working to solve it by approaching the solution with an understanding that:

1. People have other things to do – so there should be a way to get a ‘heads up display’ of information while you work

2. The heads-up-display should only interrupt you when something immediately important happens

3. Information comes from places other than RSS – so you need to support multiple sources through adapters.

So we are trying to do all this with our ‘all-purpose heads-up-display gadget’ called ‘Touchstone’.

You can check out more info at http://www.touchstonegadget.com.

It’s not designed to replace the aggregators you spoke of – merely extend them into your periphery vision while you work on other things.

This short circuits the idea of 30 hours of read in a 24 hour day!

A couple of good postings about information overload have come my way via Alex’s blog. Anne 2.0:… you keep seeing the same blogs with different posts about the same topic or the same posts but linked by different bloggers or

A couple of good postings about information overload have come my way via Alex’s blog. Anne 2.0:you keep seeing the same blogs with different posts about the same topic or the same posts but linked by different bloggers or different

On Newsgator, I subscribe to 370 different feeds – right now there are 4765 posts from these feeds waiting for me to read them. Sometimes I give up, read my favorites, erase the rest and start from scratch – but

Information Overload RSS aggregation brought to us a wealth of information. Now we can gather information with ease. It’s seems to me that the tendency to information overload lies in human nature – it’s a part of our need…

Information Overload RSS aggregation brought to us a wealth of information. Now we can gather information with ease. It’s seems to me that the tendency to information overload lies in human nature – it’s a part of our need…

Information Overload RSS aggregation brought to us a wealth of information. Now we can gather information with ease. It’s seems to me that the tendency to information overload lies in human nature – it’s a part of our need…

Information OverloadRSS aggregation brought to us a wealth of information. Now we can gather information with ease. It’s seems to me that the tendency to information overload lies in human nature – it’s a part of our need to self-develop….