That said, I’ve been reading lots of Tim Ferris’ stuff. It totally goes against information overload. The dude doesn’t even read the newspaper! Let I have already have more and more data to go through.

If we had a solution.. world domination would be in reach for sure.

I bought and tried FeedAFever a few months ago, but I stopped using it after a couple of days; it’s just not what I’m looking for. Digg, Slashdot, Facebook, and Twitter are already good at pointing me to things that are popular, so FeedAFever doesn’t really add much, and it adds the cost of being yet another site I would need to visit on a regular basis.

I’ve given up on finding a single program that’s going to solve my information management problem. What I’m looking for now are tools that will help me to construct arbitrary criteria for sifting through information from arbitrary sources and to present the results in arbitrary ways. These really should be separate tools with simple, well-defined APIs.

Niche applications like FeedAFever and FriendFeed are designed to interact directly with end-users on a regular basis, but my fundamental problem as an end-user is that I already have too many things I need to interact with!

Other people have suggested web-based services (e.g. Google Reader) but that’s not a direction I want to go. Some of the information I need to sift through is private (like my email, telephone, income/expenses, etc.). Also, the median lifespan of these services is so short that I’m wary of relying on them for something so critical to my day-to-day life.

I’m really looking for something with the flexibility of the Unix command-line, rather than another fancy webapp, unless that webapp is primarily concerned with presenting information generated from other sources.

Thanks for commenting!

http://feedafever.com/

Let me know what you think.