The secret to following lots of people on Twitter
Twitter is a fantastic tool for disseminating information, and the obvious corollary of that is that Twitter is a superb app for consuming information as well – depending on how you use it. What is the best way to make sure you get the most information out of Twitter? Follow lots of relevant, interesting people! [...]
Improve Your Blog Reading Signal to Noise Ratio
Since I subscribe to almost 200 blogs, it’s critical for me to keep a high signal to noise ratio. In other words, the posts that show up in my reader need to be things I really want to read. If I’m spending all my time separating the wheat from the chaff, then I’m wasting my [...]
Signal To Noise Ratio: Performance Management Breakthrough?
Wikipedia defines the signal-to-noise ratio (did I mention that Ron was a NASA communications systems engineer with an ABD in electrical engineering?) as the ratio of signal power to the noise power corrupting the signal. A ratio higher than 1:1 indicates more signal than noise, a very good thing. SNR compares the level of a desired signal to the level of [...]
