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Pump Down the Noise at social // potato chips — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:06:58 +0000

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Pump Down the Noise « [social] potato chips — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:49:09 +0000

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By: ivsyd

ivsyd — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:36:56 +0000

There are numerous services for aggregating your online ID’s available for free:
http://www.pageonce.com
http://atomkeep.com
http://dandyid.com

By: Matthew "Mattso" Stringer

Matthew "Mattso" Stringer — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:52:58 +0000

Social media is a reflection of real life, and real life is more fragmented and chaotic than we’d like to believe. Why should our e-lives be any different? It’s no wonder Lifehacker is so incredibly popular – it’s just profiting on denial.

By: Margery Nabors

Margery Nabors — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:58:00 +0000

As a self-proclaimed pack rat on and off line, I rarely delete or throw away. Instead, I organize much in the way that Annie describes. Digitally speaking, a number of tools have enabled me to do so with ease. For example, instead of deleting email accounts, I enable mail forwarding. Instead of visiting hundreds of separate blog pages, I use Google Reader. Likewise, I utilize iGoogle as a dashboard of my favorite sites and widgets. As for digital files, I keep every single one of them on an single external hard drive.

That being said, the web has not yet caught up with the amount of digital junk in our trunks. The suite of aggregation tools is incomplete and in some cases inadequate (i.e. points.com). From what I know, we do not yet have a place to aggregate all of our social networking pages – from Facebook and Ning to Twitter and LinkedIn. I surmise, however, that we will see one such tool in the near future.

So, I would wait to spring clean per se. I believe we are going to see continued innovation and improvement of aggregation sites.

And, don’t feel bad about being a pack rat online, so long as you can navigate what you have, the web has plenty of space to facilitate you.

By: Nicole Collins

Nicole Collins — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:09:28 +0000

And all that mess of digital junk can be exacerbated by the need for security with varied usernames and passwords.

An image of Prof. Bennett’s messy desktop projected at the MCDM Digital Pres event comes to mind. Someone should coordinate a universal day for digital clean-up. Maybe more than once a year? I’m starting with my own digital disaster-site of a desktop!