Comments on: Needle in the Haystack - Information Overloading 2.0 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/ Experiences with Ruby and Rails, Web2.0 and other development technologies Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:58:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-19039 Mike Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:50:05 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-19039 <p>If you like Quintura check out Kartoo, Clusty/Vivisimo (no visuals but good clustering), or Grokker (which has a visual portion). Cheers.</p> If you like Quintura check out Kartoo, Clusty/Vivisimo (no visuals but good clustering), or Grokker (which has a visual portion). Cheers.

]]> By: JOBMATCHBOX » Blog Archive » Online Account Redux - Part Two http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-14408 JOBMATCHBOX » Blog Archive » Online Account Redux - Part Two Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:35:08 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-14408 <p>[...] A reader pointed out a related blog entry over on Peter Szinek’s blog, RubyRailways.  Peter points out a few sites that may help with the information overload.  Here they are: [...]</p> [...] A reader pointed out a related blog entry over on Peter Szinek’s blog, RubyRailways.  Peter points out a few sites that may help with the information overload.  Here they are: [...]

]]> By: Jobmatchbox http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-14405 Jobmatchbox Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:48:59 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-14405 <p>You may also want to check out Mylifebrand.com as it is another tool that may help you cope with your information overload. I found it a few days ago and haven't tested it out yet, but it promises to let you manage all of your social network accounts from one master account.</p> You may also want to check out Mylifebrand.com as it is another tool that may help you cope with your information overload. I found it a few days ago and haven’t tested it out yet, but it promises to let you manage all of your social network accounts from one master account.

]]> By: Stephan http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7454 Stephan Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:51:27 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7454 <p>Haystack and information overload indeed: I've read (part) of this on another machine. Needless to say that I wanted to come back, when at home, alas when I wanted to come back I didn't remembered where to look for it - or what it was exactly that caught my interest. Information overload, indeed.</p> <p>Now I was looking for a Ruby or Rails blog in the internet. A special one. This one. Needle in the haystack, that's what it is.</p> <p>Finally I remembered having found this blog on www.rubycorner.com - open all updated blogs from the past few days and here I am (again). Thanks for sharing those links!</p> Haystack and information overload indeed: I’ve read (part) of this on another machine. Needless to say that I wanted to come back, when at home, alas when I wanted to come back I didn’t remembered where to look for it - or what it was exactly that caught my interest. Information overload, indeed.

Now I was looking for a Ruby or Rails blog in the internet. A special one. This one. Needle in the haystack, that’s what it is.

Finally I remembered having found this blog on http://www.rubycorner.com - open all updated blogs from the past few days and here I am (again).
Thanks for sharing those links!

]]> By: The TekTag Blog http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7339 The TekTag Blog Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:07:16 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7339 <p><strong>Needle in the Haystack...</strong></p> <p>Another great post from Peter Szinek on his blog on finding good technical information called Needle in the Haystack - Information Overloading 2.0. As usual, very interesting insights into search, the semantic Web, and, of course, bookmarking. We appre...</p> Needle in the Haystack…

Another great post from Peter Szinek on his blog on finding good technical information called Needle in the Haystack - Information Overloading 2.0. As usual, very interesting insights into search, the semantic Web, and, of course, bookmarking. We appre…

]]> By: Ben http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7336 Ben Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:02:22 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7336 <p>I agree with you on the general information overload feeling. I don't have any time for sites like Twitter myself, it's about finding the quality content rather than quantity (which seems to be the problem with most blogs).</p> <p>Personally, I subscribe to over 300 RSS feeds via (my own Rails application) www.trawlr.com and use tags and the "favourite" feeds feature to ensure I keep up-to-date depending upon available time. If I only have a few minutes I'll quickly skim through important feeds; if I have plenty of time I can just go through the entire list (river of news style view) until I get bored!</p> <p>As for the alternative search interface you noted, a Google search for "web scraping" ruby returns scRUBYt within the first page. So your visual search example isn't actually any quicker (in fact I'd guess that displaying a Google search result is much quicker than creating the fancy cloud of results).</p> I agree with you on the general information overload feeling. I don’t have any time for sites like Twitter myself, it’s about finding the quality content rather than quantity (which seems to be the problem with most blogs).

Personally, I subscribe to over 300 RSS feeds via (my own Rails application) http://www.trawlr.com and use tags and the “favourite” feeds feature to ensure I keep up-to-date depending upon available time. If I only have a few minutes I’ll quickly skim through important feeds; if I have plenty of time I can just go through the entire list (river of news style view) until I get bored!

As for the alternative search interface you noted, a Google search for “web scraping” ruby returns scRUBYt within the first page. So your visual search example isn’t actually any quicker (in fact I’d guess that displaying a Google search result is much quicker than creating the fancy cloud of results).

]]> By: Tim http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7335 Tim Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:18:44 +0000 http://www.rubyrailways.com/needle-in-the-haystack-information-overloading-20/#comment-7335 <p>Thanks very much for covering TekTag. We generally agree with your assessment, and are working hard on some new features that we hope will make TekTag even easier to use. We've been chasing down a few annoying bugs that should soon be fixed, adding some basic things (popular, tektag.com/tagname navigation, comments), and will be adding some better search functionality shortly. After that, we're thinking about some specific technical tools and networking features to help people find answers and experts. Don't want to tip our hand, but you get the idea.</p> Thanks very much for covering TekTag. We generally agree with your assessment, and are working hard on some new features that we hope will make TekTag even easier to use. We’ve been chasing down a few annoying bugs that should soon be fixed, adding some basic things (popular, tektag.com/tagname navigation, comments), and will be adding some better search functionality shortly. After that, we’re thinking about some specific technical tools and networking features to help people find answers and experts. Don’t want to tip our hand, but you get the idea.

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