Comments on: Google Me Stupid

By: Trevor Payne

Trevor Payne — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:17:55 +0000

…and then you add in all of the media – movies, books, magazines, television (both good and bad) – one needs to consume to keep abreast of popular culture trends. It’s perfectly exhausting. Life can easy become detached from any immediate context, spiraling into this pseudo meta reality. Dad, can we go to the pool now? Hold on, just let me finish this article on [fill in the blank here]. Personally I am trying to formulate some simulacra of a strategy to deal with this phenomenon; if I come up with anything I’ll let you know.

By: Andrew Blackman

Andrew Blackman — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:20:46 +0000

@Trevor Payne
Hi Trevor
Glad I’m not the only one! Triage is a good way of putting it And the thing is, there’s never an end to it. I sometimes wonder what would happen if I just unplugged my internet connection and never read another email. Of course I’d lose out in lots of ways, but possibly I’d make some unexpected gains…

By: Trevor Payne

Trevor Payne — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:25:41 +0000

I also find the amount of fragmented information I have to process through daunting and anxiety inducing. It is ridiculously easy to devolve into an online ADD ennui. Augmenting this issue is the ease with which others can impose their information load onto you – say through email or Facebook – and I find simply deciding that something someone has sent me unbidden isn’t worth investigating takes inordinate spats of time, if you add it all up at the end of any given week. It is alarming how often I have left an online session after having merely triaged a set of information.