With unlimited capacity to share and interact, can we learn to limit the noise we produce? See it as more of a curating job? It's been interesting using Sweetcron as my blog software – there's a lot of stuff on there and every time I tweet, upload or share, I do think “am I happy with this being on my website?”

For example, the simple act of posting a picture or a link on FriendFeed now posts it to Twitter and that subsequently updates my Facebook status. So if I don't want to update my Twitter, I shouldn't post FriendFeed items, and I've held back at times.

I also know that my Disqus comments (like this one) will hit FriendFeed and be archived on BackType, so I want to be sure to deliver context rather than a simple “I agree” or “LOL”, for example. I also haven't signed up to BrightKite, and I don't pipe in Wakoopa updates, for example.

At one time, I absolutely considered Twitter noise, and avoided it. But it's become essential, so I've limited my actions as to not annoy my followers. Earlier this year, I set an internal metric so that my total number of updates would never exceed my number of followers, and so far, that's happened. The thinking there is that if I get too noisy, I'll see unsubscribes, and I can measure using Twitter successfully as to whether folks stick around.

There are two ways to limit noise – on the way out and on the way in. I talked about the consumption side and you have a good summary on the production side.