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Boston Globe: the Big Picture

One of my favorite blogs/newssite is the Boston Globe’s the Big Picture.

With its vibrant oversized photographs and minimalist design, the Boston Globe’s The Big Picture weblog launched on June 1 to instant global acclaim. It’s designed, programmed, and written by Alan Taylor, an old-school web programmer and blogger, in his spare time while working on community features at Boston.com.

Read the interview with Alan Taylor, creator of the Big Picture. Pretty neat stuff…

Social Media – Who and What to follow? A never ending list

Once in a while I get overwhelmed with the amount of digital information that is thrown at me. Today was one of them. My home page is set to popurls. I’m pretty fast with scanning this page for stories I like or seem interesting. Today it threw a curveball at me: frienderati at Alltop. I was aware of Alltops’ egos, twitterati and socialmedia. Now there is frienderati… Can you feel the information overload?

So I thought to filter through the list and add the most interesting feeds to Newsfire (my rss reader). Newsfire told me I had 1181 1232 unread articles and it was then that I collapsed …and I still need to open up my email.