Information overload disturbs me. As much as I adore books, magazines, and basically anything interesting to read and learn, I sense that I need to establish some boundaries for allowing all this stuff into my mind.
It might be helpful to write some sort of script that prompts people to delete blog feeds from their RSS reader...though the reader probably can't tell which feeds I peruse, skim, or just click on so it'll be eliminated from the to-read queue. It could also be helpful to prompt people to delete tags from their del.icio.us account if they haven't been clicked on for a certain period of time.
Libraries care about weeding physical materials, but what about online materials?
I recently learned that Google acquired a whole bunch of land in Oregon in order to store their server farms. It hadn't dawned on me that all my e-mails and other online whatnots have to be processed and stored via these huge machines which require electricity...thus, energy is spent (squandered, I should say!) on preserving much information that is useless.
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It could also be helpful to prompt people to delete tags from their del.icio.us account if they haven't been clicked on for a certain period of time.
But what about those links that I save and don't use for two years until one day I suddenly have a use for them? I don't want to get rid of something I might need someday.
Wow. Now I sound like a librarian who doesn't want to weed anything ever ever ever. I'm not sure I like that. =(
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