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Karina Wright has an interesting post titled Avoiding Social Media Burnout over at Smarter Than Your Average Blog. She brings up a very interesting point that is worth taking a critical look at.

I am not going to paraphrase her article, go read it, its well worth it.

The reason that her article strikes a chord for me is that I have taken the social media break that Karina suggests, and in many ways I am still on it; I don't think that I will ever go all the way back to my old "social media ways".

I always thought that social media was more about the wisdom of crowds, but somehow it devolved into hyper-instant-messaging; people micro blogging their lunch menu does nothing for me. I don't care that you are at NAMM and standing in front of the latest Roland synth; wait until you get to your hotel room and give me the details. And even THAT turns into a time sink. There are a handful of blogs that I actually read every post, the rest I cruise through on occasion looking for gems; I really am looking for the haystack full of needles and I think that the wisdom of crowds can help.

Digg is a great example of the wisdom of crowds working. Sure there are a few gamers, but for the most part the system works. I can go to digg and get the latest news as seen throught the eyes of the digg community. The digg system basically works, I never see spam on the front page and the gamers don't mess it up TOO bad.

The one problem that I have with digg is that that the crowd whose wisdom I am trying to capture may be too big and diverse. But I will post on that later. :)