links for 2011-01-25

The problem? It’s still not enough. Instead, I – like TechCrunch and the forthcoming ‘AppleDoch‘ collaboration – see a more digital future built around relevancy to the individual. Flipboard, RockMelt, My6sense, Brizzly, Pearltrees, Qwiki, Navigaya and the forthcoming Orbit are all nods to a digital future that is about sheer information, minus real brand allegiance. It’s not about you anymore… if it ever was.

The mainstream media is slowly catching up with the idea, that if you are to have a sustained existence in an ever-changing world, you need to know your single point of focus rather than be carried away on a tide of ball-licking possibilites. Doing it because you can, is still, and has always been, a terrible editorial idea. Doing it because you must is a much better manifesto.

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