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Trolling cyberspace for relevant information

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Jerry Fahrni
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Ours is an age of information. It comes at us from all directions; unrelenting and ever present. Finding information is no longer a problem, figuring out what to do with it and how to handle the never ending stream of information is.

Cyberspace, i.e. the internet is full of information. It’s available via weblogs, online journals, social media, through professional organizations, via webinars and so on. The problem is that the information has no meaningful structure, making it difficult to sift through. What’s worse is trying to figure out what information is reliable and what information isn’t.

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Categories: Pharmacy Informatics | Tags: Information Overload, Social Media, Twitter

All roads lead to Rome, err….I mean Twitter.

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni
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internet_overloadUntil the next big thing comes along Twitter is king. That’s why I found this Tweet from Robert Scoble so interesting. The Tweet itself simply let me to a blog article written by Louis Gray. The blog discusses two distinctly different approaches to sharing information; Louis Gray’s approach versus Robert Scoble.

Louis utilizes Google Reader to collect and sort various RSS feeds. Any story, blog, article, etc. that he finds interesting get pushed to Twitter via the share feature in Google Reader (see the graphical representation at Louis’ site).

In the other corner you have Robert “using not RSS, but Twitter, to share the best of the technology Web as it streams on his screen.” Robert appears to be making extensive use of his Twitter Favorites.
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Categories: Cool Technology, Web 2.0 | Tags: FriendFeed, Google Reader, Information Overload, Twitter

“What’d I miss?” – Week of July 13

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jerry Fahrni
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As usual there were a lot of things that happened during the week, and not all of it was pharmacy or technology related. Here’s a quick look at some of the stuff I found interesting.
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Categories: What'd I miss | Tags: Apple, box office, Corticosteroids, CPOE, Independent Pharmacy, Information Overload, iPhone, Mac tablet, NRT, RSS, Severe Sepsis, tablet pc
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