What is more important: Having easy
access to information, which we have,
or consolidating and pre-digesting that
information onto these so-called portal
sites--for consumer targeting.
Well I know what is important to me, and I
have a pretty good idea what is important
to business--steering eyeballs into their slop.
Simply bookmarking your favorite websites
and doing websearches gets you what you need.
Usenet is pretty useful sometimes too--as well
as specialty websites such as SI.
Content aggregator=content terminator,
it's all out there already (go get it!)
I suppose our economy needs a base of reliable
consumers which can be steered, er, herded.
Big business has to have that constant revenue
stream.
What I think is best about the internet is that I
don't have to spend my time plowing through douche
and beer ads--in a few clicks I can be reading and
thinking. I'm not a great thinker--but I do know
that I'd prefer not to have my thinking done for me.
Part of the process is searching for the answer,
turning on one channel, one portal, or someday,
the Paul Allen persistent online world, is a step
away from that.
A wired world sounds a lot like Teevee,
that cannot be good. |
