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Confessions of a Digital Packrat

May 19, 2007

Posted by leah.jones

My name is Leah and I am a digital pack rat.

I wish I remembered what blog I was reading when I found that term this week, but since I'm a digital pack rat I can't tell you. While I have been working hard to eliminate clutter at home and in my office, online I am a pack rat.

I tag pages in del.icio.us with complete abandon. I add feeds to my feedreader with little discretion. I use my Blackberry and Flickr for mobile photoblogging. I twitter random thoughts when I am in between computers. I'm a packrat and I think I need help.

I have a friend who uses the same sites as me. He will judiciously send me one link through del.icio.us for every 10 I send him. He posts one photo on Flickr for every 10 I post. I imagine if I went to his house, I would see the same sort of minimalist approach to life that he has to his digital life.

Are you a digital pack rat or a digital minimalist? How do you deal with the crush of information? Do you save every link that might be useful in the future or do you trust in the power of a good search engine?

posted by leah.jones

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