The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will better applications?
Erick Schonfeld bemoans the state of information overload in his latest post on Techcrunch:
I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts …read more

I think Toluu might be one of the best new finds this year.  Sure FriendFeed and SocialThing! are helping us aggregate our online lives, but Toluu is helping me find more and more interesting stuff online.  Getting a broad perspective through RSS is key, I’d say essential, to what I do and maybe for all of us.
New Toluu features: activity feeds in RSS and RSS reader syncing in Toluu
One of the odd things about Toluu was that it launched without RSS feeds of it’s own.  So you were adding feeds and getting updates from people (via email), but what about …read more

You know by now that I’m a huge fan of FeedDemon.  I slog through 1000s of posts a day using it and probably mark almost as many read with the panic button when I get behind.  Like any good piece of software FeedDemon has a ton of not-so-well-known tricks that power users can take advantage of.  Most of the time only a few people find even a few of these tips, well because Nick is such a cool guy he’s given us 40, yes forty four zero, tips for using FeedDemon:

10 Tiny FeedDemon Tips
10 More Tiny FeedDemon Tips 
Son of 10 …read more

Louis Gray commented a week ago on how poorly Google Reader updates feeds, in direct contrast is this post from Greg Reinacker on how NewsGator works:
Category A: these are feeds that are needed by certain commercial syndication services customers with extremely tight SLAs – some of these SLAs guarantee content available within 2 minutes of publication in a feed. Feeds in this category are retrieved every 60 seconds. Exception – if a feed reliably pings our system with updates, the poll-retrieval interval may be dropped to a lower category; however, if the feed does not appear to ping us with …read more