If it's your job to stay current, and read hundreds and hundreds of articles to see what is relevant, then yes, I could see a tool for managing "information ove

If it's your job to stay current, and read hundreds and hundreds of articles to see what is relevant, then yes, I could see a tool for managing "information overload" being useful. My tool for managing "information overload" is to be more picky about what I choose to read in the first place (HN and Reddit definitely help), and to deal with the fact that I can't read everything. I'd rather read 20 articles in full than read 200 articles in soundbite form. My brain isn't going to retain the information anyway, so I can only hold onto the coherent stuff. I'm still waiting for a good e-reader with enough resolution and update speed to facilitate rapid scanning. Paper is amazingly fast to read; I can scan through a newspaper much much faster than the equivalent electronic form.