I think that the best definition I found for Information Trapping is the one that Tara Calishain (creator of ResearchBuss) gave: “I define information trapping as using alert services, RSS feeds, and similar services to bring updated content to you as it’s generated. Like the “push” technology we were all hearing about ten years ago, except that this time it works!”
Information trapping send us back to the beginning, what we used to get before and what we get now. It’s clear that we have improved the way we search the web and the information we get has much more quality than before. Junk aside, I believe that even if we have more information available than 10 years ago, it’s much easier for us to organize all this information according to our needs. Before, we didn’t have that option, now we do. RSS feeds are a perfect example of this, you can subscribe to any feed that you may be interested in and received it right into your inbox, even if we don’t read all the information coming from that feed, it’s much better that waste hours looking for what we want in the web. These tools help you to find the information you want, instead of you going to get that information, it comes to you.
Sources:
Information Trapping – An Interview with Tara Calishain
Information Trapping
What is Information Trapping
I have read up on the tools that you can use from different sites that define the term. I was wondering though, are there any specific examples of tools you can use or that you use personally?
By: Ashley Bloss on November 25, 2008
at 6:47 pm
Thats the only good sound information i could find also.I searched hi and low. Did you read the part where it was stated that it may take longer in the front end to set up? That kind of unmotivated me. But then again it isn’t something i even use. How about you?
By: Kris on November 25, 2008
at 8:57 pm
the way it brings you info is all cool and dandy yet dont think that i would even set up something like that dont have the time plus want to limit reading all these kinda places just think for me its a waste of time
By: mariam8099 on November 25, 2008
at 10:33 pm
I think more of us we couldn’t find more result about what means “Information Trapping”. Maybe because since google pay to use “google sense” millions of “trash” sites appearing on the web just for money with information that is not valid or maybe because some bloggers just write with out any previews investigation, etc.
By: Pilar egusquiza on November 26, 2008
at 1:02 am
It is way much better than looking for information that you can barely find. I kind of felt like a fool because I knew about it and chose not to use it before.
By: jaybelle90 on November 26, 2008
at 8:49 am