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Information Obesity
Roland Piquepaille writes "How many phone calls, emails, voicemails, memos or stories do you have to go through every day? Probably more than last year. And probably too much. This article from the Sydney Morning Herald looks at this problem of information overload and how to deal with it. Here is a quick and not well-known fact: Website content management author Gerry McGovern says that something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread. Despite that, when putting content on the web, "rarely do we ask the question: is anybody interested in reading that?" Good point. Check this column for a summary if you don't have time -- and who has? -- to read the original article."
Who has time to read the article? I have to put up another webpage about my cat!
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
that 70% of all wesites now are blogs
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
i am a comment you will never, ever read
if you are reading this, then you have entered the ironic realm of self-referential commentary
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I'm not quite sure what I'm replying to (I just skimmed it) but I'm quite sure that I'm right and the poster is mistaken; he's either a liberal or a conservative and wrong either way. Plus he's an MS troll. Or a Linux troll. His cat website is cool thought.
Um, if you post your URL here on slashdot, I would guess you will get a lot more hits.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
But my parents always told me I was just information big-boned.
I knew I should have spent more time exercising and less time reading newspapers.