mindfulness
March 12th, 2004 | Published in Out Loud
In subscribing to a number of rss feeds while still reading a few major newspapers, I believe I’m starting to see patterns in how news stories bubble up to the big sites/papers. What strikes me is how the internet has been integrated into the news cycle, permanently increasing its velocity. Whether this increase will continue to accelerate, well, time will tell.
It could be that we need information filtering tools (google news, rss aggregators) more than we know. I tend to get overwhelmed switching from the Net to TV (where anchors are rehashing news I’ve already read), and the sheer volume of news stories needed to fill the days of cable news networks, newspapers and internet sites is staggering. They don’t stop talking—ever.
So it may just be that information overload, combined with some good filtering technology, will actually spell the death of broadcast television and the birth of Internet TV.
Simply put, I need more control over what’s jacked into my brain.