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Thursday, November 1, 2012
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Relief Valves for Flooded Social Networks
New York Times/Personal Tech – by MATT BUCHANAN
It doesn’t take a hurricane, a presidential debate or an Apple product announcement to find yourself overwhelmed by the ceaseless flood of updates pouring into your social networks.
Thanks to Zuckerberg’s Law — the belief of Facebook’s co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, that people share twice as much every year as they did the year before — there really is more information than ever before. Twitter posts can be generated at the rate of several thousand per second for some news events.
Fortunately, there are easy ways to manage Facebook, Twitter and Instagram so that your brain feels less engorged by feeding tubes of information.
Inevitably, the core problem is that you’re trying to see too many things. So first, you should embrace what the digital entrepreneur Anil Dash has called “the joy of missing out.” You’re not going to see every update from every person ever. In fact, that’s the big secret about controlling the waterfall of content that social networks mercilessly dump on your head every second: You’re not supposed to consume every drop.
To read this article in its entirety, please click the link below
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/technology/personaltech/facebook-and-twitter-neednt-flood-your-inbox.html
Link to Broadway Grosses for the week ending October 28, 2012:
http://playbill.com/news/article/171770-Broadway-Grosses-Oct-22-28
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm
Current week:
1. Wicked – $1,657,271
2. The Lion King
3. The Book of Mormon
4. Glengarry Glen Ross
5. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
Last week:
1. The Lion King – $1,718,718
2. Wicked
3. The Book of Mormon
4. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
5. Evita
5 Years Ago:
1. Wicked - $1,435,731
2. Jersey Boys
3. The Lion King
4. Mary Poppins
5. Mamma Mia!
10 Years Ago:
1. The Producers - $1,121,944
2. The Lion King
3. Mamma Mia!
4. Hairspray
5. Thoroughly Modern Millie
The Billboard Charts ~ Issue Date: 2012-11-10
Billboard Top Broadway Cast Album Catalog:
#1. Wicked, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#2. The Book of Mormon, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#3. Once: A New Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#4. Jersey Boys, Original Broadway Cast Recording
#5. Newsies, Original Broadway Cast Recording