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"From peppy life lessons on Facebook, to fitness freaks showing off their hard-earned results on Instagram, we have reached peak inspiration overload. And the people are revolting in protest."

The important thing is to manage the flow of information in your life. Information is power, and you can't do without it. Managing the flow is the key.

"The important thing is to manage the flow of information in your life. Information is power, and you can't do without it. Managing the flow is the key."

"Now I have over a thousand unread messages in one email account, and I'm tempted to declare email bankruptcy. Since then, I've been focusing on one email account that I check consistently and keep organized. I've found that it's more efficient for me personally to manage one inbox than it is to jump around checking multiple accounts. Here are several strategies for staying on top of email:"

Achieve more, together. Escape email overload and document chaos with Podio, the collaborative work platform.

"Although massive open online courses (MOOCs) are seen to be, and are in fact designed to be, stand-alone online courses, their introduction to the higher education landscape has expanded the space of possibilities for blended course designs (those that combine online and face-to-face learning experiences). Instead of replacing courses at higher education institutions, could MOOCs enhance those courses? This paper reports one such exploration, in which a Stanford University Machine Learning MOOC was integrated into a graduate course in machine learning at Vanderbilt University during the Fall 2012 semester. The blended course design, which leveraged a MOOC course and platform for lecturing, grading, and discussion, enabled the Vanderbilt instructor to lead an overload course in a topic much desired by students. The study shows that while students regarded some elements of the course positively, they had concerns about the coupling of online and in-class components of this particular blended course design. Analysis of student and instructor reflections on the course suggests dimensions for characterizing blended course designs that incorporate MOOCs, either in whole or in part. Given the reported challenges in this case study of integrating a MOOC in its entirety in an on-campus course, the paper advocates for more complex forms of blended learning in which course materials are drawn from multiple MOOCs, as well as from other online sources."

"nternet service providers-Comcast, in particular-have been started to flex their muscle. Transit provider Level 3 says that, as it sends traffic into their networks, the big U.S. ISPs are letting some of its routers overload with data. And amidst these bottlenecks, Comcast is exploring ways of selling its own CDN services that can help companies increase delivery speeds."

"there are now also websites and people on Twitter who say that they can send bots into games, adding sometimes dozens of extra players, thus overloading and crashing games."

"Here's a look at over 30 content curation tools (mostly free, but some paid/professional tools as well) that will help you cut through the clutter of your information stream to find the gems.  Each tool mentioned below has unique strengths, and none are exactly like any other. "

But even though you're likely built for this kind of intense regime, you'll be better served if you learn how to harness your distracted tendencies. Here are three tips that I've learned to help you along:

"Here's why I went on my social media diet and why you might want to consider doing so too, as well as a few social media dieting tips."

"In a recent conversation on the Forum talk program, Rheingold stresses the importance of intention when it comes to managing digital noise. Knowing that every click will likely to lead to a chunk of time spent on what follows will help people decide if that's worthwhile. Every click counts."

""What we need to get much better at is scaling that system so you don't have to pay attention to everything, but you don't miss the stuff you care about...""

"She won't have that problem anymore, thanks to a new Web tool called Unbaby.me, which replaces the baby pictures on Facebook feeds with things that people prefer to see, like photos of cats, sunsets and bacon."

Rather than focusing on taking temporary breaks from technology, we need the discipline to live with it at all times. We can't rely on a mountain or a remote wasteland to create waldeinsamkeit; we have to create it ourselves.