That last item made me think of what I posted almost a year ago on Monday, October 27, 2008. Rather than make you search through the archives, I'll just post it again:
It occurred to me that by starting this blog, I have become your news butler, serving up tasty little tidbits of news to please you. That’s just what Nicholas Negroponte predicted would happen, but he was thinking of a robot, not a professor. “Don’t squirt more bits at me,” said the M.I.T. computer scientist and Internet visionary way back in the 90s. You gobble up millions of bits every day, by the way. Bits are the basic unit of information in this digital age.
Negroponte could already see that we would all soon be overwhelmed by the information coming at us through the Internet. What he wanted was not more bandwidth but “intelligence in the network and in my receiver to filter and extract relevant information.” That’s where the news butler or “interface agent” would come in. “Image a future where your interface agent can read every newspaper and catch every broadcast on the planet, and then, from this, construct a personalized summary.”
Writing in Wired magazine, he contended that we really don’t want more “info grazing” and “channel surfing.” We want help, help in making sense of it all. Maybe he’s not talking about a news butler but a blogger.
Or maybe Fast Flip!
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6 comments:
I like what is written. It encourage me to read a lot and i see my self become addicted to this blogg because of the interesting little tidbits of news that please me
Fatima Almarzouqi
its true but you have to really trust the source that collect these bits of info.
Aysha mosabah
We should be thinking twice before uploading any information coming to us. We should search and get more information then we can upload it. Who writing information has a huge responsibility towards people who reading his blogs. It is true that some blogs can give as latest news but we should know from where it comes.
Suhaila Saeed
We are dealing now with a huge network of information where everybody can post whatever they want, without thinking of the results.
Some people may post wrong and negative information where other people might believe it.
Each person is responsible of what he/she is writing and must think carefully before posting anything.
I think your blog is really interesting because you spot light the important and interesting news, which is going on in the world.
As you mentioned that your pleasing us with the news your serving us, which is good because your helping us to gain and learn some information that we didn't heard of or didn't knew, however its sometimes not safe though because some people may post false information.
i find blogs more interesting than any other source in the internet because it gives us an idea of what the blogger is thinking about or what the blogger thinks is interesting. Because of the many information provided in the internet, i often find myself asking where to go or what to find, what is important and what is not. then i eventually leave the internet and look for something else to occupy myself with. Even though the blog may not be credible, i can always check, it is interesting to see what interests people.
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