Valueable recommandations instead of fruitless rummaging

Without Google: Day 1

Yesterday I made my mind to abandon all search engines for some time; I now don’t want to hesitate to tell you how my use of the Internet is changed by that.

The most important means to get to valuable information are my networks, Twitter at first. I would not want to get lost in a trivial eulogy on the great Web 2.0. However, I feel very self confident to get into all the paths on the Internet that I would really want to follow, rolled out for me by my peer-group’s posts.

For the first time I bothered to inspect in detail which links would be recommended to me in my Twitter-timeline. Until now I had presumed that I would have clicked more or less at random on the one link or the other. To get a more objective picture I now archived every link that I would see as worth following, in a list.

After looking what links I added came the surprise: I had in deed looked on about half of the Links from my timeline! Hardly was there any Spam. In fact, behind almost all the articles lying behind the links were worth reading, or at least I would find pictures that I would find funny. This efficiency in supplying content I find noteworthy.

Here is the list of links, that I would have judged relevant to follow yesterday evening:

chaskor.ru/article/delo_infoksa_ili_istoriya_bolshoj_lzhi_20677
georgien.blogspot.com/2010/10/photography-cattle-drive-in-tusheti.html
thepoke.co.uk/index.php/2010/10/07/the-wire-monopoly-game-2/
indiskretionehrensache.de/2010/10/faz-sueddeutsche-handelsblatt-ftd/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
flickr.com/photos/dv0rsky/5114409009/
flickr.com/photos/heiko/5114422025/
yfrog.com/ehcvnwj
twitpic.com/30sxfj
georgien.blogspot.com/2010/10/photography-production-grant.html
twitpic.com/30sy79
en.trend.az/news/politics/1771868.html
news.az/articles/politics/25231
en.trend.az/news/politics/1771701.html
crunchgear.com/2010/10/25/has-the-threat-of-cyber-war-been-overstated/
booktwo.org/notebook/network-realism/
news.az/articles/politics/25274
jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=37052&tx_ttnews[backPid]=7&cHash=e9be54c676
rferl.org/content/Georgia_Offers_North_Caucasus_Residents_VisaFree_Travel_As_Kremlin_Cries_Foul/2196150.html
english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/7174930.html
chaskor.ru/article/frantsuzskij_politicheskij_krizis_20678
en.trend.az/news/politics/1770912.html
pr-inside.com/ict-development-and-cyber-security-event-r2196497.htm
zdnet.de/news/mobile_wirtschaft_studie_ipad_nutzer_sind_juenger_und_verdienen_weniger_als_kindle_besitzer_story-39002365-41539782-1.htm
twitpic.com/30t0jb
en.apa.az/news.php?id=130822
iwpr.net/report-news/minority-language-controversy-georgia
haaretz.com/news/international/will-the-arrest-of-two-israeli-businessmen-in-georgia-hurt-economic-relations-1.319917
en.ce.cn/World/Europe/201010/21/t20101021_21906159.shtml
carta.info/35454/das-dogma-anonymitaet/
businessinsider.com/cuban-offers-to-bankroll-sec-lawyers-to-speed-case-2010-10
niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/25/unpopular-science/
todayspictures.slate.com/20101025/
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/stories-vs-statistics/
s-bahn-muenchen.de/s_muenchen/view/aktuell/news/streikinformationen.shtml
manomama.de/blog/2010/10/25/ein-pladoyer-fur-menschliches-erbgut/
twitkrit.de/2010/10/25/tarnung-ist-alles/
techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/even-if-solar-funding-vc-bloomberg-photovoltaic/
techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/digg-to-lay-off-37-percentof-staff/
boingboing.net/2010/10/25/local-newspaper-boas.html
oldwayspt.org/newsroom/2010/10/consumers-urged-cook-pasta-october-25
taz.de/1/leben/medien/artikel/1/wir-sind-keine-heimliche-regierung/
v-x.posterous.com/amazon-0
facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1535921112951&set=t.135659806479013
twitpic.com/30ts2o
bletchleypark.org.uk/content/archive/index/october1940.rhtm