The Personal News Agency Dealing with information follows the (almost universal) five-step pattern: sensing > filtering > reasoning > creating > enjoying. It i

The Personal News Agency Dealing with information follows the (almost universal) five-step pattern: sensing > filtering > reasoning > creating > enjoying. It is like noise > signal > information > action > flow, or, fear > accept > share > use > love. And many more. No one has to consider the existence of information sources. They will grow up instantly from individuals, local groups, global communities and professionals specialised on production. The most important is to find the right channels for you and open as many channels possible inside you to let information flow through your senses. Don’t bother about acquiring exact knowledge. Let your brain automagically store whatever seems to be important, go and discuss frequently your ideas to distill thoughts and opinions about what you have read. Create knowledge based on feedback. The tool you need must focus on helping you channeling, tagging, formatting information and producing, sharing results/knowledge. The return will come from surprisingly unseen and now unpredictable receivers. Once you shift from consuming to producing you’ll open channels in other systems willing to recognize your effort. More at http://clair.ro/blog/2009/08/17/future-of-journalism-the-personal-news-agency/ http://clair.ro/blog/2009/08/17/future-of-journalism-the-per...