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Why forums are dangerous

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Thu, 2009-06-18 21:44. [nid:1407]
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Forums are often full of total newbies trying to find out, and only slightly-less-newbies answering their questions. I know blogs like The IT SKeptic are nearly as dangerous for their self-appointed-expert status, but at least you have Google page-rank as some indicator of how others view the site. On a forum it is hard to evaluate what a poster knows unless you already know the answer to the question. Look at this example

The information barrage - blinded by the light

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Wed, 2009-06-10 21:11. [nid:1523]
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There is a quite amazing new statistic: information increases by 66% per annum, faster than any other artifact of the human race. Here I was thinking I was just getting slower at coping with it all, but indeed I am drowning in an exponentially increasing flow. What about you? How do you deal with it? It is exponential: how much harder has it become in the last two years?

Stunning internet and website visualisaton

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Sat, 2009-06-06 22:14. [nid:1521]
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Here is a superb website on data visualisation. I heard about this site from Riitta Raesmaa on Twitter. What really hit me were the images of the internet and the blogosphere. My favourite site is Aharef. The static graphs of websites are fascinating, but the real whammy comes when you watch it generate an image of a site, such as this one.

Bill the IT guy

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Fri, 2008-09-19 06:12. [nid:1147]
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This is fun

I think they absolutely NAILED the boss. "I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes a successful company" LMFAO.

Google rots your brains

Blog entry submitted by skeptic on Mon, 2008-08-18 11:07. [nid:717]
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I found a fascinating article from the ever-interesting Nicholas Carr (remember "IT Doesn't Matter"?) on how Google is making us stupid.

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