Removing Digital Clutter
I took some time the last week to organizing my digital life, really clean it up. It can get a bit unruly and combersome. I gather information from twitter, plurk, google+ and my rss feeds in my reader. I post occasionally in them as well. I feel disconnected, disorganized and distracted. I spent time looking for one tool that would let me collect and share from a single place. But nothing seems to do it all. I thought about just leaving some things behind but I learn from these people and value them. So I took a look at the network/tools I use, listed who I follow in each, tried to determine which network/tool they are most active and removed them from the others. I weeded out people who have not posted in the last 6 months or just post links to things they have bookmarked. I may still have 4 main places to check out each day but I will have less in each and have removed the repetitiveness. I hope this helps me focus more on what I am reading and learning and not the frustration of navigating through all the information.