Cleaning up Feed Subscriptions: I feel more in control of my information crunching behaviour now that I've thrown out some extremely verbose RSS-feeds yesterday. Stuff like del.icio.us hotlist, popular Digg stories and feeds related to Google alerts, it turned out, does little more than give you a strong feeling of information overflow. But now that I weeded my RSS-garden, it's become extremely pleasant to skim through the feed queue using the iPhone version of Google Reader.For those of you interested in my shared ite...

Links for 2007-05-10: Presentation on High Performance Webpages : presentation by Yahoo's Steve Souders about optimizing website performance by focusing on front end issues. Great stuff!How Much Textual Information Do We Consume Daily? : interesting post on our daily information consumption and the consequences of the content explosion brought by social comp...

My library is selling its long tail: Last Saturday, like almost every week-end, my son Kai and I went to the local library. As always we tried to score five new children's books, a goal we somehow always manage to attain :-) And when there's time and attention span left, I get to choose some books and cd's as well. That fortunately being the case, I noticed that the music department was selling part of its collection. Not junk, but truly magnificent stuff. Apparently, the...

Run Motherfucker Run: Note to myself: quit feeling like you are constantly running in a threadmill, hunted down by work, meetings, information overflow, ... Man, the last months where like a constant run on the Run Motherfucker Run, a new media installation by Marnix de Nijs I had the chance to experience during DEAF 2005 and Ars Electronica in Linz that same year. And then to say i'm actually supposed to be an "ep...