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I've got a broad range of interests, so I end up following all sorts of people on Twitter. I also end up unfollowing all sorts of people on Twitter, and I was about to unfollow someone today because the #Libya issue, as interesting and important as it is, is not helping me with immediate concerns - no offence, Libyan rebels, keep going! - and the play by play retweets of everything #Libya are monotonous. I'm sure on the ground things are quite exciting, but moving from a hotel and hopefully being picked up from someone is a little too much information for me right now. I'm trying to get contracts so I can keep KnowProSE LLC in beans. Fault me if you must, but self-preservation is something I won't apologize for.

So it's not that I'm insensitive about Libya. In fact, I'm in Trinidad and Tobago right now where there's a bit of a split personality State of Emergency that has its own issues.

And that's when I realized that Twitter has a feature missing. In fact, every single social network out there has this feature missing. And that feature is being able to turn off or at least throttle certain tags in one's stream.

Lets say, for example, I want to follow what is going on in Libya but don't want to know all the specifics - couldn't I simply throttle those references down without having to unfollow people? That makes more sense.

It's that Hedgehog Dilemma Project I wrote of before. Might be time for me to get back to some code. That would be refreshing. No need to lose friends, just... listen to less of what you don't want and more of what you want to.