Filter or Die

OK, so my secret plan to get all nice and caught up on the readings and the postings and the firehose of information for this course did not quite come together prior to the Intensive. In a nutshell, I am just behind.

I've heard it's not fatal, but it just doesn't feel good. I'll live, and I'll get caught up. Monday night I did get some of the reading done and I realized that there was a virtual ocean of articles and posts to get through.

Incredible - the first week of school and all of a sudden I am hundreds of things behind - readings, postings, blogging, tweeting, and who knows that else.I went to bed sad and frustrated and considering bailing out of this class and trying to get into one where I know more and maybe had slightly **less** assigned reading. Less than a firehose of info coming at me sounded good. Sad because I think this is a cool course.

In the morning, I got it. No mistake we are getting firehosed with information.

Brilliant. Drown them in an imposible number of readings and things that will "encourage" the students to convert to Google Reader sooner rather than later. (Duh!). I am convinced.

Currently I spend maybe 5 hours a day on email and maybe another 5 on the Internet. Every day, and that is not including Elluminates or the Channel. I get several hundred emails a day that really do need to be read and many of them need immediate reponses. I read about 3 print magazines a day, 2 newspapers, 5 or 6 blogs and newsletters, and I have started some postings on some open innovation blogs.I hire people to do the research for me that I do not have time to do.

It's still NOT ENOUGH! I need more information than I am getting, and I need to be able to find and the retrieve it. Then read and assimilate it. Got the point. I need more info, not less, to do what I do in the business world.

Filter or Die! I need this course, these tools, this experience.Tomorrow is another day. Looking forward to it!