Making Information Useful

This site is a place for me (and hopefully a few friends) to organize all our thoughts, observations, readings, links, etc. about how information can be made more useful. I love information, but I feel overwhelmed and overloaded by it sometimes. There is so much useful information available to us, but how do we get access to the right information at the right time? How do we keep track of it and organize it? How do we take large amounts of information and consolidate it into concise views that allow us to extract the most useful bits? In other words, how do we make it more useful?

There have been so many significant advances made in this area over the past decade. I intend to write about a lot of them. I hope to hear from others. I ultimately hope to find some patterns of information usage and communication that help myself and others.