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.
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I love the image of the shared desk, Jamie. But to me, the shared Internet space it is so much more than that.
When I pile things on my desk, I see almost a chronological stack of items: The bills I put down on Monday are covered by the letters I received on Tuesday and so on. I may pull out something from the middle of my stack to place at the top but really, there’s no organization or relationship with the items that are put there.
The thing that amazes me about the information on the Internet is that it is so freakin’ organized. It is almost like we’re all sharing a warehouse full of nothing but file cabinets and copiers. For every item we create and file, we have no idea who will find it, copy it, and re-file it elsewhere. Kind of cool; kind of scary!
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