Web wisdom: Google Before You Tweet

Joe Newton's letterpress poster, "Google Before You Tweet is the new Think Before You Speak" is damned good advice.

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A nice sentiment, but the problem is that it’s easier to write (“create content”) when it’s still new to you, when you’ve still got a sense of wonder and feel creative and smart. If, instead, you research the matter you’ll find that all your clever ideas have already been expressed better by others.

I think that’s why Mythbusters has stopped looking up their incoming myths and instead jump straight into experiment mode. They don’t want to know that they’re duplicating work, wasting their time, they just want to play and make segments for their show: Ignorance is content.
Anonymous

unfortunately we have come to rely on screens to display our information instead of good old-fashioned books;research is foreshortened into smart system “relevance”. No one is exposed accidentally to tangential knowledge and we,as a people,no longer have any grounding in source material.
Anonymous

I would love a cross stitch pattern for that.
Anonymous

Credit is due here to Jon Parker, who coined this clever phrase. Font is Olduvai by Randy Jones (available on Veer), and printing was done by Davin Kuntze at Woodside Press, Brooklyn, NY. I was the designer.

Thanks for the post. JOE NEWTON
ThomasAllen

Engage your Google before putting your Twitter in gear.
GuyInMilwaukee

That takes me way back to an old saying my Pappy used to say; “Snopes before you Forward”.
agates

Gosh

Isn’t it a sad, sad day when “Googling” has replaced “thinking”.

Sigh…I need a beer.
- Donald Petersen
  
  Man, you said it. Our language has truly become irritatingly infantile.
jmchugh

So “Google before you tweet” is the new “Check your facts before posting nonsense to the Usenet, I always do”?