Thankfully, recommendation services like Zite and Flipboard have figured out some ways of keeping their users informed without overloading them with information.
A growing number of buildings are keeping their residents informed and connected through regular newsletters.
No one wants the obligation of keeping their fridge informed unless they're seriously short on inter-personal relationships.
"Working on the newspaper during this period and keeping their classmates informed have been therapeutic," Ms. Ojalvo said.
They also made a point of keeping their superiors informed, for example, discussing with them changes they were proposing in detail particularly during the early taking-charge stages.
In an Olympic year, many transport companies are looking to social media as a way of keeping their customers informed.
In this context, the website Pikaia (http://www.pikaia.eu) has been active in Italy since 2005, with the main aim of keeping Italian readers informed about everything regarding evolutionary biology happening in Italy and abroad.
Since 2005 the website Pikaia (http://www.pikaia.eu) is active in Italy keeping Italian readers informed about everything new happening in the fields of evolution in Italy and abroad and suggesting news, papers, books, websites, congresses and seminars.
Philanthropic journalism can take up some of that slack, but it will be narrow in another way: Donor-funded journalism tends to largely be ideological, with donors looking for stories that flatter their opinions and produce measurable political "impact" beyond just keeping readers informed.
And until we were able to make our own call, we told our readers that the networks had called the race, which we thought struck the right balance between keeping readers informed and being sure we had it right.
Between all that, Sarah managed to write regular updates from her journey for The Independent, keeping readers informed of her progress and what is truly entailed when such an ambitious task is undertaken.
