Oh dear, the internet will ruin my brains. After all those years of remembering stuff its a frightening thought that you might lose all that because of your online behavior. Lucky you: it’s nonsense.
Part of our mission is to give you the opportunity to create your online library. Up to now I thought a private library reflected a personal intellectual journey. But now there is this British author, who states that a private library is nothing more than ‘a universal legacy pretending to be an individual one’. Read more »
The Dutch author Gerrit Komrij (1944) carries his iPad just like an erotomaniac would carry a prostitute in his pocket. Computers and internet are his lifeline. Socially, because he lives in a remote villa in Portugal and professionally: to satisfy his broad interests.
Interesting piece on TechCrunch this morning, in which Semil Shah writes a paragraph that would not hurt our mission page:
There is too much information online, too many pages filled with stock images and no context. Search engines provide significant utility, but we still have to exert energy to find what we need after results are algorithmically surfaced. The new crop of social media companies help discovery come online and threaten traditional search. With these new tools, users are able to clip and collect the bits of the web that they are most interested in and, in the process, disregard the rest as noise.
Shah is discussing Pinterest, the visual discovery site that shows a hockey curve growth. And it’s also featured on our Umfeld board: Read more »
Sometimes you curate the internet without realizing it.
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Did you know that the potential benefits of the internet where already described in 1580? Read more »