Why do people keep asking me where I always find useful info on the internet?
I always answer: How can you not? There’s an information explosion going on.
The question is not where to find it, but how to be smart about finding the things you need or want or are actively seeking.
Filters. Tools. Aggregators. Organize the info.
One absolutely essential tool is an RSS reader. It saves me hours a day. Get one and one and use it. Here’s a list of RSS readers. Most are free, and they’re easy to configure, once you realize what a great tool it is. 
I use Google’s reader utility. Yahoo also makes one, and you can even configure your Microsoft Outlook to handle RSS.
Now…whenever you find a great page you really like…grab it’s RSS feed by clicking on the orange symbol. It’ usually tucked away in the top right of most any page, or sometimes in the same window where you type a web address.
Subscribing to the RSS feed of any page puts it on a list in your reader along with all the other sites you’ve subscribed to, and now when you go to your reader, you see them all listed there with a nice, condensed, digest of all the articles from that site, stripped of the other superfluous “stuff” you always find on web pages…it’s just the valuable content. I’ve got hundreds of sites in my list.
Below are four articles you might find interesting that I discovered within minutes from four sites listed in my Google Reader:
FaceBook Set To Launch Music Service on September 22 (if you can put music on your FB page, then you’ll be able to put demo mp3′s there also, I’ll wager)
The Social Media “Cool Club” …Your Online Influence (your measure everything else, why not your Social Media influence?)
SmartPhones are Still Pretty Dumb
A Day in the Digital Life (Incredible InfoGraphic on how we are tied to our devices wherever we go…even the bathroom!)
Now…go sample the information explosion!
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HaHA!
FaceBook as a music service… Perhaps call it VoiceBook? Next we’ll hear about the FaceBook Booking Service, for professionals to book gigs and network with industry social elites (who’ll probably just be nothing more than a form of google bot programmed to pick apart your mind to discover terrorist plots lol), which we’ll call BookBook, and an interactive FaceBook Recipies service, which allows people to interact with top chefs from around the world, which we’ll call CookBook.
I’m curious to know if FaceBook is going to actually find time to actually protect the rights of the artists who’ll jump onboard this Music Service with such included in the EULA. I’m curious to understand who will thus at that point actually own the music… and how much artists will be fleeced by FaceBook in the actual transaction.
Sounds like another grab for the goods via the exploitation of an individual’s I.P. with the advent of this music service Dave… esp. from those not represented by a PRO.
IMHO this is just another part of a multi part effort by entities such as Microsoft, FaceBook, and Google to ultimately corral the digital identity of the online personal presence into a format that will give them the legal rights over an individual’s online I.P.
A.K.A. you are now known as a virtual slave…
Food for thought.
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