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October 16, 2007

On the Edge of Information

Web2.0, Health2.0, Life2.0.

There's so much information available at our disposable nowadays that keeping up with it can become a part-time job. We specialize because we have to. Yet being in the know can be a fantastic feeling. I've often called it being on the "edge of information"; following the news, blogosphere, local and global community events, social networking sites, and mainstream media just to name a few!

We're constantly absorbing and translating at exponential rates that we rarely get time to digest it all. Sound bites have become info bites, and while the quantity of information we hold in our minds has grown, the quality is debatable. Life2.0 must be self-defined. What does this information mean to us? What kind of impact does it have on our daily lives? We may be reading but are we retaining, processing, connecting...learning?