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Journal Journal: Online communities becoming online trash?

As we all know there are thousands upon thousands of online communities that seem to flood the internet traffic on a daily basis. Each one having its own topic or theme. The question though is when is it too much. We have quality news communities like slashdot that provide a abuntant resource of information and there are your thousand of useful egroups. However there are the other communities where they are a promising group that never turns out to be more than one and the site will end up rotting and cluttering the internet for years upon years. This is even more of a hassle if you are trying to search for a specific group to join and you are met with a search result of 3011 dead groups. I guess the great thing about the internet is you can broadcast a page or rather a server from any location and anyone can do it. Is there or should there be a regulation on net junk though? I don't really think there should be a regulation persay for I believe the internet should be 100% free and a world of its own but would there be a way to better manage or ask users to try to keep semi tidy when stuff is dead for over say 2-5 years? Then again you are also faced with the question of archiving stuff. The grand piece of the internet is it has practically unlimited space with the combined effort of thousands upon thousands of hard drives already. Should the dead communities remain in existance purely for archiving purposes or should they eventually be pruned and as the old saying goes, "Out with the old and in with the new?"
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Journal Journal: Keeping on top of the tasks.

Ever have that feeling you have too many tasks to do and not enough time in the day to complete them? I always feel like I could seriously use a project management tool just for my life. I guess a organizer would be a great start but I never find myself using the pocket calandar stuff and I would definally use a PDA but the problem is I would probably never keep my eyes off of it. Just like a majority of people I love to play and tinker with technology. I recently got a laptop and it has in itself been a trouble maker with my relationship due to me always wanting to be doing something that would involve it. I mainly got it to increase productivity though so I guess in a way my goal has been achieved. Don't know exactly how to solve this problem of having a list of 1000 to-do's and them having no specific defined order or urgency. Maybe Ill figure this one out efficently enough to work.

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