Comments on: The curse of too much good web http://daveunderwood.com/2006-06-26/the-curse-of-too-much-good-web/ A New Zealand perspective on search engine marketing, web analytics, social media & more Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:37:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dave Underwood http://daveunderwood.com/2006-06-26/the-curse-of-too-much-good-web/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Dave Underwood Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:37:53 +0000 http://daveunderwood.com/?p=3#comment-680 It is interesting how I tackle distractions now. I think I'm slowly getting better at it. It reminds me of a Dimmer song called 'Nowhere I Want' which has the lyrics "I've been turning down information, facts that are best left a mystery". There is a lot of stuff these days I just don't need to know so I don't read about it. It is interesting how I tackle distractions now. I think I’m slowly getting better at it.

It reminds me of a Dimmer song called ‘Nowhere I Want’ which has the lyrics “I’ve been turning down information, facts that are best left a mystery”. There is a lot of stuff these days I just don’t need to know so I don’t read about it.

]]> By: Hamish Graham http://daveunderwood.com/2006-06-26/the-curse-of-too-much-good-web/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Hamish Graham Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:01:22 +0000 http://daveunderwood.com/?p=3#comment-679 I battle with the same thing - I'm discovering though you can take advantage of down time like first thing in the morning when you are still trying to wake up, or later at night when you don't really have the energy to do any productive work anyway... good time to process through that stuff (instead of maybe watching TV or looking at random photos on facebook), and yes learning skim reading techniques definately helps. I use a combination of the Read It Later firefox extension, and then from there I either read through them at the right time (I try not to let it grow too much), or if I see that it will take longer to read I put it into my todo list in the right sort of priority area. I battle with the same thing – I’m discovering though you can take advantage of down time like first thing in the morning when you are still trying to wake up, or later at night when you don’t really have the energy to do any productive work anyway… good time to process through that stuff (instead of maybe watching TV or looking at random photos on facebook), and yes learning skim reading techniques definately helps.

I use a combination of the Read It Later firefox extension, and then from there I either read through them at the right time (I try not to let it grow too much), or if I see that it will take longer to read I put it into my todo list in the right sort of priority area.

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