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Unless you’ve been living on the Moon for the last couple of years, then you probably heard about the concept of Web 2.0. You probably use at least one social bookmarking site, you’re active on at least one social network, you get your news from various online publications or blogs and you probably look for work in various online job boards.
With so much content at your fingertips, it’s difficult to say no. So you bookmark, you save and you join, and tell yourself “Yeah, this looks interesting, I’ll check this one later”.
You see where I’m going with this? While I believe that the whole “web as a platform” concept is a great thing, I can’t help noticing that the more you get involved, the more frustrating things can be. New content keeps piling up, but you’re still one person and the day doesn’t get any longer either. Soon, the amount of unread blog posts in your feed reader or the amount of unanswered messages can become overwhelming.
Just to prove my point… here’s an example: how can someone resist such a great resource of freelancing information? It almost impossible! 
Sure, I bookmarked the link, but by the time I finish parsing (not reading) all those articles (probably 3 weeks from now), I’ll stumble across another piece of aggregated content and I’ll be back to square one. Will all this reading make me better, stronger, smarter? Who knows? Maybe…
LATER EDIT: If you enjoyed this article, you might want to read a similar article about social media. I’m telling you: aggregation sites are the next big thing!
