Tired of remembering? Archive your brain!

The rise of the digital citizen is causing a constantly growing and continuous stream of knowledge being distributed through the wide spectrum of channels. It is like someone has turned open the water tap and the information is like the water just running out of it. But with the big difference that we can’t open or close it when we want to ... it is open now ... so how do we stop ourselves from drawning? We can’t be expected to process each and every bit of information that comes along? Filtering is key in information gathering and anaylsis, we are already equiped with tools like Google Search, Digg, Del.icio.us, RSS feeds, Twitter ... that based upon collective / artificial / trusted / authentic intelligence provide us a way to only get a subset of that stream therefore preventing us from drawning in that sea of information. But that is just one part of the problem. These tools enable you to retrieve / follow subsets of streams based upon techniques like folksonomy. So t...