My share is your share

I absolutely hate filtering through trash. Just recently one of my friends lost their cell phone and found it in the trash. The truth is sometimes you have to go through the trash to find what you are looking for.

This is also true for getting to good information. It can feel like going through trash, looking for something. Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have too? Well, if you like user arrogation this might be helpful.

3 quick filtering tips

Here are a few things I do to get to good information outside normal news feed, twitter and podcasts.

• Get others to do the dirty work – Sometimes it can be helpful to get someone else to do the dirty work for you. I suggest creating a a twitter list of people who are on top of the news; or subscribe to a trusted recourse like the carsonified lists.
• Spring Clean – Believe it or not removing noise is one of the most powerful ways to get to better information. Take a moment to go though who you follow on twitter and the feeds you read and do some early spring cleaning.
• Start a conversation – Many times I’m surprised at how a simple conversation can be just as enlightening as going though 100 news feeds. I know it sounds a lot like the first point but this is direct while the first is indirect.

My Google Reader Shared Items

Ok, its shameless self promotion time! If you’re interested in what I believe is relevant and interesting you can check out my Google reader shared items. It may not always have things that are interesting to you, it may not always be relevant to what you are working on, but it will/may keep you from having to go though to the 100+ resources  I do each day.

So, what are some of the things you do to filter though information? Do you use resources like huffduffer or friendfeed?