That's an interesting viewpoint, but it is your viewpoint. I personally get a lot of value from real-time information sources - links to new software releases

That's an interesting viewpoint, but it is your viewpoint. I personally get a lot of value from real-time information sources - links to new software releases or bug fixes, updates on social meetings with friends, uploads of photos from vacations and the like. I want this information, the trouble is (as the article says) I can't be available to filter and process it 24/7. So I end up reading through lots of junk to mine the value from the stream. If someone wrote an algorithm that knew what I valued and filtered / built digests for me, that would be great! Saying I should just 'deal with it later' doesn't really help though, because later there's more stuff to filter.