October 10th, 2012 at 4:21PM
NPR Fresh Air: How do you sift through the information noise?

Just when I think I’m beginning to make sense of it all.

nprfreshair:

“According to IBM, 90 percent of the data in the world was created within the last two years. Now not all that data is very useful though, it might include YouTube videos of people’s cats and text messages sent between teenage girls.” — Nate Silver

For the record, we’re not saying YouTube…
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    Fuck you, Nate Silver.
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  5. picaresquity answered: My method is to get overwhelmed and stress out. I also email myself articles, hoping the inbox clutter spurs more reading.
  6. worldtravelmom answered: Yes, there is a lot of noise out there and I like your approach. I find that I’m most productive when I turn off all electronics.
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  8. 6stronghands answered: I am personally sick to death of using girls as a punchline. Especially in an article like this. Girls COMMUNICATE. This is GOOD.
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  10. eveningsandcoffeespoons answered: I ignore things that denigrate teenage girls, for starters.
  11. yahighway reblogged this from nprfreshair and added:
    What’s less important than cat videos? Whatever teenage girls have to say! see also: why YA is popular with ladies young...
  12. jshmllr answered: Distance is a great thing to put oneself at with news. Also, curation using lists on Twitter, Tumblr, Flipboard, Zite, etc help the feed.
  13. kinsale42 answered: I follow people on Twitter and Tumblr whose voices I want to hear, and I listen to NPR for most of my news.
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    Ugh, sure, “teenage girls” are held up as the epitome of meaningless, vapid, useless data exchange and consumption. I...
  21. mulberryroad answered: Yes, I agree with Heidi. Thanks for the post.
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