Improving the Signal to Noise Ratio

Ellen Fishbein asks, "Why NOT be an information sponge?" In the Age of Information, I think her answer is a good one: "I currently believe that each of us must move away from the ‘information sponge’ mindset and try to develop a more nuanced relationship with information."

I’d have to characterize myself as more of an information amoeba – (IIRC, the amoeba is, by weight, the most vicious life form on earth) – on the hunt for information and after internalizing it, going into rest mode while I decompose and reassemble it into something of use to my understanding of the world. Yum.