The World is flat!

I am reading a book called The World Is Flat, so this thought isn’t some witty idea I came up with.  The book is an interesting read on how technology has leveled the playing field.  Access to information/research, collaboration, and authoring tools allows the small 5 person organization in Dubai to be global player in their industry.  500,000 US tax returns were completed from India last year…McDonald’s is using call centers to handle your drive up order – that person asking you to super size could be sitting in Colorado!  At my job, I have phone calls with team members in countries I have never heard of.  Technology has really made it possible to access and contribute ideas seamlessly around the world. 

I don’t want to get too deep into the idea of Globalization (boring to most), but I find myself overloaded with information.  My blog is less then a week old, but if you just look at my blog roll and follow the links and ideas for 30 minutes or so, I am sure you would get overwhelmed with information…

Pastor Micah always has awesome thought son leadership, but then I follow his link to building great churches by Jim Collins…greatness is a choice and undisciplined pursuit of more that will kill on org…great stuff!  Then I look at Pastor Jamie’s blog and see a link to the Xerox’s card to the US soldiers initiative on the growing our community blog (refered by Chanique).  In the meantime, I have another screen open and looking at The Juggle blog (in my blog roll) and read an awesome article on how Most Nobel Prize Winner didn’t go to the top colleges and is success a product of nature or nurture.  All the while, I am reading technical reviews on Lenovo’s latest products in India, Singapore, and so on.  I think you get the point. I could go on…following political races, reviewing investment options, reading up on new managemen strategies, etc

I have tried RSS Readers to pull and coordinate stories of interest to me, but in this flat world and so many sources of data, I find my list growing to 100, 200, 700 news/blog/Internet feeds for my interests. 

A few questions…how do you guys keep up? Are you seeing the same overload of information?  Doy ou find your appetitie for new sources of great info growing or do you keep to the same authors/sources for the most part?