In keeping with Lisa’s theme, I want to talk a bit about the topic of attention management.

A week ago, I declared information bankruptcy.

Information bankruptcy is a more generalized form of email bankruptcy and RSS bankruptcy. I have too much content to keep up with. I have 96 people I follow on twitter (low by most affluent standards). I have 73 friends on facebook (again, low). I follow the life streams of a dozen people. I’m on livejournal, flickr, yelp, upcoming, eventful, tumblr, delicious, wordie, pownce, linked in, myspace, last.fm…the list goes on.  By declaring information bankruptcy, I stayed away from all of these things for a week with the intention of rethinking how I consume data when I return.

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