Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Choice

The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz, argues that more choice leaves us feeling worse.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Internet as shared space

December, January, February, March. Somehow I lost a quarter in my blogging experiment. Perhaps the urge to write is related to daylight. Or not.

I was unsuccessfully trying to locate a comment about PowerPoint best practices when I commented to a friend that, "the Internet is like a desk cluttered by 5 million people sharing it, stacking things upon it, just for a second or two, then forgotten about..."

She liked the quote, and encouraged me to copyright it. I don't know if the idea is copyright appropriate, yet I do rather like thinking of the Internet as some kind of shared desktop accumulating clutter at an astounding rate.