Thank technology for Folksonomies! Now I have my friendly little 'Delicious' buttons on my toolbar I have no need to worry about where that old envelope is with the chocolate cake recipe on one side and the key reference to my latest essay on the other! Getting students familiar with such tools from an early stage will be vital for them to build skills to organise all the information they find now and in the future.
Wordle is another great tool that enables you to draw out the most important information from a document, website or blog, and could be used in a number of different ways in the classroom, for example you may build on the 'word wall' strategy and create a wordle image at the beginning of a topic (to get an idea of current understanding) and create another one at the end to see how the students understanding has developed over the course of a particuler project.
RSS feeds are another way to manage the information you recieve. They allow you to choose a particular topic of interest and recieve up to date news feeds straight to your blog, homepage or wiki. This is great for a classroom blog or wiki on a particular topic as there is no need to spend time sifting through mountains of information to find what you are looking for.
The idea of network (or social) filtering does have its advantages as it makes sense that the people you know and choose to have in your network are going to share interests with you. It may however limit the information you are given access to too much, which in turn limits your potential knowledge.
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