The World? Your Oyster? Why Not?


	The World? Your Oyster? Why Not?

wildcat

3-18-2007 6:58 AM

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information, news, internet, attention, knowledge

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3-18-2007 4:21 PM

Sorgalim

I am ignorant if I want to be an ignorant...With all the information I can find find the only thing I have to do is read and learn...It is really true...thank you

3-18-2007 5:56 PM

000dnj

People primarily seek out information that is useful to them. Most isn't.

3-19-2007 2:20 AM

Torley

There's too much stuff out there for any one person to care about, hence why the human race is billions of people, that weight can be distributed accordingly, with many sub-niches and "vertical interests" finding healthy markets even today, thanks to being connected via the Internet and being able to cut to what you really want with search engines.

Remember the Virtual Louvre on the World Wide Web in '95 and a time before Google?

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