Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Phil Gyford – Finishability: „But those old-fashioned constraints of printing can also be a benefit. There’s something satisfying, predictable and achievable about a more-or-less fixed amount of stuff to read appearing on a regular schedule. For example, when faced with most news websites one of the reasons I don’t spend much time reading them is…

Clay Shirky at WSJ.com – Does the Internet Make You Smarter?: „We are living through a similar explosion of publishing capability today, where digital media link over a billion people into the same network. This linking together in turn lets us tap our cognitive surplus, the trillion hours a year of free time the educated…

Derek Powazek – Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us: „Just think about the millions of people on the internet, each in their own timeline of learning something new. Most people will never get to 2,500 hours. They’ll never not suck. It’s not personal, it’s just math. So that’s why the…