Fulfill your need for feed
Attention and other things an Island bound parrot may say. Enough already? Staccato social splatterings
I'm not sure we have a new problem here. Just an old one that has a tail, long or otherwise, is pretty easy to pin on. Hell they even bring this up in the first few paragraphs.
Let's get back to 1989 when there was still email but less people to send it to. Back in those days Nigerians were rich, penises erect, hair flowing, people were slim, fit and trim and all their gambling needs were met offline.
50% of all astronomical knowledge had been acquired since 1990, It's reckoned that knowledge is doubling every five years ( nope I won't cite that one either
The post on ReadWriteWeb is a good resource of current choices and just how far into the electronic rabbit hole one could fall. There isn't too much content any more than the 18th C has too many books, languages or funny names for a turnip.
The idea that the bulk of traffic is personally relevant is a conceit on the part of the receiver/ transmitter and to be blunt no one born in the last few centuries "knew it all" though I'd like to have read what Voltaire thought about coding So we've just learned that once again we're human.
One if you've not noticed now most of what's in public is "private/public" e.g through it's obscurity and banality even looking at the message wouldn't pique your curiosity then there's the source material hidden under a me2 echo chamber to the power of greyskull. I think we're heading towards a personal agent here more so than an aggregate of providers defining me by their output it's my filters , kept and maintained by me, thats work out nicely.Put it this way I've trained a spam filter to pretty much dismiss most of what I hate. Where's the inverse for the web?
AOL made the web manageable for the noob after all. If this social user focussed rounded cornered and color graded 2.0 world can't even best that it will be nice to see what comes next. Is it really that different? AOL's walled garden with your friends on the same service, Cough My facespacebookle
Software my change, the people on the whole, don't.
Too Many Choices, Too Much Content - ReadWriteWeb
Mass adoption begins when the graphs are put away and we become friends again
Take a day off and you're behind. Take an hour off and you just missed 300 more blog posts. In addition to the everyday struggles of information overload the average computer user deals with - like the overflowing inbox,
Let's get back to 1989 when there was still email but less people to send it to. Back in those days Nigerians were rich, penises erect, hair flowing, people were slim, fit and trim and all their gambling needs were met offline.
Richard Saul Wurman. Information Anxiety. New York: Doubleday, 1989: 32.
A weekday edition of the New York Times
contains more information than the average person was likely to come
across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England. . . . [no evidence
is provided for this claim - it's simply stated as fact.]
50% of all astronomical knowledge had been acquired since 1990, It's reckoned that knowledge is doubling every five years ( nope I won't cite that one either
The post on ReadWriteWeb is a good resource of current choices and just how far into the electronic rabbit hole one could fall. There isn't too much content any more than the 18th C has too many books, languages or funny names for a turnip.The idea that the bulk of traffic is personally relevant is a conceit on the part of the receiver/ transmitter and to be blunt no one born in the last few centuries "knew it all" though I'd like to have read what Voltaire thought about coding
So we've just learned that once again we're human. One if you've not noticed now most of what's in public is "private/public" e.g through it's obscurity and banality even looking at the message wouldn't pique your curiosity then there's the source material hidden under a me2 echo chamber to the power of greyskull. I think we're heading towards a personal agent here more so than an aggregate of providers defining me by their output it's my filters , kept and maintained by me, thats work out nicely.Put it this way I've trained a spam filter to pretty much dismiss most of what I hate. Where's the inverse for the web?
AOL made the web manageable for the noob after all. If this social user focussed rounded cornered and color graded 2.0 world can't even best that it will be nice to see what comes next. Is it really that different? AOL's walled garden with your friends on the same service, Cough My facespacebookle
Software my change, the people on the whole, don't. Too Many Choices, Too Much Content - ReadWriteWeb
Mass adoption begins when the graphs are put away and we become friends again
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