Ha ha, I agree. I hope I didn’t come across to the contrary. If so, I blame it on staying up too late celebrating my first my first Civic Holiday in Canada. I love finding out about new holidays that give me the day off.

No, I’m not looking for some regulation or filter dictating how people use the internet. That would take away all my fun. I enjoy the randomness of YouTube. In my spare time it is nice to sit back and see what pops up.

I was just looking for some examples of those different tools and organizations out there that help people and organizations connect. Obviously orgs like the UN need to do more than just post their information and wait for people to come…Well, what can they do and where can they go?

For individuals “Googling” isn’t the end all be all to search. Often times it is very limited… so, what can a person do? Where can he go? Are their sites that help people learn these things? When I first started doing research it was difficult. We cover all kinds of different topics and so I had to learn the ropes.

I don’t know everything. I always like to hear of new ways to make my life easier, and I know there are many other people who struggle to find important data when they need it.

So if there are some holy grail amazing tools, orgs or methods that help connect people with important info, it is always nice to learn something new.

I really feel like Ken is hoping for a top-quality curated site that caters to his interests. If there’s not already a big-media site out there that suits his needs perhaps he could consider setting up a Google Reader feed with a few hundred good sites and then paying a virtual assistant to sift through it using his pre-determined rules and preferences.

I can’t quite get what it is that you two are hoping for in terms of a higher-quality information filter. Can you maybe describe what success would look like and then we can use that as a base for talking through our solution?

I suggest you to read this :

http://195.251.218.37/eP/

fred

No need to toss out the results of millions of man-hours of searching just because Digg is cluttered. It’s still less cluttered than the Internet itself.

First, thanks for mentioning me in your post.

Your observation is the big dilemma of the Internet.

The answer: We need editors to identify all the amazing things that reside on the Internet. Digg and others are not the answer. Why? There’s too much junk on them. Thus they become a waste of time.

YouTube is a perfect example: There’s a goldmine of video on YouTube (and other sites). However, identifying the gems is a daunting task. So, much of it will never be seen. The needle in the haystack will be hidden to the masses.

So, until a formal edited approach is used, it’s a free-for-all on the Net.

Get out there and submit the most interesting items you’ve found thus far to Digg, Delicious, and BoingBoing! The links will spread and you can sleep a bit easier