Like a lot of things Web 2.0, I've dipped my toes in the waters of social media websites without getting in too deep. I've been reading Digg, Techmeme, and Slashdot (until they started using a script that forced me disable it with each and every visit) for some time now without joining any. Having seen this Thing, though, and how I can tailor what I'm seeing, I'm finding it a brave new world that I want to join. More than any other Thing this one has impressed me with just how fast the Internet is changing and how profound that change is. My only question is how am I ever going to find the time to keep up, much more take advantage of, the opportunities being offered?
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Not sure if these are so important at the library, except to keep up on certain kinds of news. But on a personal level they are useful as long as they are configured correctly to deliver the information I want to read and not used to browse topics endlessly. It's useful for finding the kind of information useful to me rather than the information that publishers want to spoon feed me. The danger is that I will filter out everything I don't want to know about but I think most people do that anyway when they sift through a newspaper's headlines.
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