 laceym says: Look at the huge amount of information that exists in the world. Before you can even start to understand it, you need to decide which parts of it you are going to spend time understanding, and which you will largely ignore. This means taking a glance at a huge quantity of information and forming quick opinions. From this initial scan, some elements will catch your eye. Those are the parts that you will look at in more detail. It will be a very small percentage of the total amount of information available. For the vast majority of the items we come across in an average day, we glance at the head lines, make our snap judgments, and we move on, looking for the item that strikes enough interest to generate a more thorough examination...Does clipmarks contribute to this? Good question... I feel that the responsibiity for getting "good information" lies with the individual. I do understand that people are overloaded with info...but much of that info is celebrity-oriented/superficial and really quite useless...yet, many people continue to seek it out and in so doing ensure that more of the same type continues to dominate our media landscape. For me, clipmarks is a buffet of tips and arrows which can lead and point the way to discovering a possible deeper understanding of whatever topic I find appealing. I choose to deepen my learning...or I choose not to. The New Yorker fiasco is (to me) a sad but comical example of how little energy (some) people choose to ... |
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