I agree. this morning we had a pair of guestspeakers at our office telling us about twitter and how to be awesome at it. I guess you just have to be loud and everywere to be anyone in the interwebs. Good content is valued however, and rare.
I think it’s pretty cool that the internet can hold so much information and allow the exchange of it instantaneously. I don’t think it’s “too much”, but yes, none of it is going away! Why should it?
I was listening to NPR like a good nerd the other day and they were talking about generational ideas of fame – our generation being the “you’re special and no on else can do what you do” generation who simply decides to move to Hollywood because there’s no possible way we can’t make it, and this current generation of youngsters being essentially the same with one key difference: the internet. We grew up without it, and they’ve been posting YouTube videos since they could walk.
The idea that one can become famous and wealthy through simply having a successful blog or YouTube channel is scary – what’s scarier is that it’s true. Perez Hilton. Reality television stars. DerrickComedy. It works. But what happens as a result, both from this trend and the trend of parents telling their children that they’re all special and unique and brilliant and of the utmost importance, isn’t just an overabundance of content – it is an overabundance of id. The “self” perceived by an individual anymore doesn’t exist so much outside of themselves as it does in quasi-internal external content posted on their social networking profiles. The internet “Self” is constructed, and the result of this construction is a scattered trail of castaway content that inevitably sits, growing rank in the still waters of a stagnant body of water – the internet.
Someday I’ll have the time to write a book about this stuff and publish it on the internet.
I agree that there is too much content on the internet.
Just yesterday I was talking to my fiancee about how I think we have still only begun to start utilizing the resource of networked devices and near instantaneous information transfer. In the coming decade we will see the amount of information and things that we can do via the web only grow exponentially. And I am excited to have this growth. So is growth beyond too much . . .too much? I don’t think so. My “too much content” refers to the content that is really only useful to people doing research on society and what they obsess over and other behavioral tendencies. But would I like more information to be available to be on the web? Yes. And I believe any person who has ever asked the great Google a question and not found an accurate/adequate answer would agree.
I agree. this morning we had a pair of guestspeakers at our office telling us about twitter and how to be awesome at it. I guess you just have to be loud and everywere to be anyone in the interwebs. Good content is valued however, and rare.
I think it’s pretty cool that the internet can hold so much information and allow the exchange of it instantaneously. I don’t think it’s “too much”, but yes, none of it is going away! Why should it?
And we’re adding to it its muchness right now.
Too much content, probably. Too much data? Never.
I was listening to NPR like a good nerd the other day and they were talking about generational ideas of fame – our generation being the “you’re special and no on else can do what you do” generation who simply decides to move to Hollywood because there’s no possible way we can’t make it, and this current generation of youngsters being essentially the same with one key difference: the internet. We grew up without it, and they’ve been posting YouTube videos since they could walk.
The idea that one can become famous and wealthy through simply having a successful blog or YouTube channel is scary – what’s scarier is that it’s true. Perez Hilton. Reality television stars. DerrickComedy. It works. But what happens as a result, both from this trend and the trend of parents telling their children that they’re all special and unique and brilliant and of the utmost importance, isn’t just an overabundance of content – it is an overabundance of id. The “self” perceived by an individual anymore doesn’t exist so much outside of themselves as it does in quasi-internal external content posted on their social networking profiles. The internet “Self” is constructed, and the result of this construction is a scattered trail of castaway content that inevitably sits, growing rank in the still waters of a stagnant body of water – the internet.
Someday I’ll have the time to write a book about this stuff and publish it on the internet.
I agree that there is too much content on the internet.
Just yesterday I was talking to my fiancee about how I think we have still only begun to start utilizing the resource of networked devices and near instantaneous information transfer. In the coming decade we will see the amount of information and things that we can do via the web only grow exponentially. And I am excited to have this growth. So is growth beyond too much . . .too much? I don’t think so. My “too much content” refers to the content that is really only useful to people doing research on society and what they obsess over and other behavioral tendencies. But would I like more information to be available to be on the web? Yes. And I believe any person who has ever asked the great Google a question and not found an accurate/adequate answer would agree.
And we’ve all just proved his point by making it worse.
Too much content isn’t a bad thing. Having too much of a bad content is.