Not to mention a vast amount of news to read.
One of the advantages of getting a newspaper delivered to our door, or watching
the news on television, is the finite nature of the delivery system. There may
be a great deal of news within the paper's pages, but once we've gone through
those pages, we're done.
That's not the way things work on the web, where we seem always to have yet another
link to another story, to an additional aspect of the story, to a different take
on that story, and more. There's something very comforting in knowing that in
a few moments we'll be turning to the last page of the paper, and we'll be finished
with the news for the day. Getting our news via the web can often keep us from
getting around to our own work. And if our sources are countless grass-roots journalists
who are continually adding to, and editing, their reports, following those reports
may keep us from ever getting any work done at all.
Go to: Write your own news, or
Go to: One case in point, or
Go to: How many prosumers can fit on the head
of cyberspace?