Comments on: Web wisdom: Google Before You Tweet http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 19:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jan Karlsbjerg http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048883 Jan Karlsbjerg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048883 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: <a href="http://www.jankarlsbjerg.com/blog/archives/2008/03/04/ignorance-is-content/">Ignorance is content</a>. 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1065011 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1065011 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. 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048885 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048885 I would love a cross stitch pattern for that. I would love a cross stitch pattern for that.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1050211 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1050211 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 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

]]> By: ThomasAllen http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048688 ThomasAllen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048688 Engage your Google before putting your Twitter in gear. Engage your Google before putting your Twitter in gear.

]]> By: GuyInMilwaukee http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048692 GuyInMilwaukee Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048692 That takes me way back to an old saying my Pappy used to say; "Snopes before you Forward". That takes me way back to an old saying my Pappy used to say; “Snopes before you Forward”.

]]> By: agates http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048697 agates Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048697 Gosh Isn't it a sad, sad day when "Googling" has replaced "thinking". Sigh...I need a beer. Gosh

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

Sigh…I need a beer.

]]> By: jmchugh http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048700 jmchugh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048700 So "Google before you tweet" is the new "Check your facts before posting nonsense to the Usenet, I always do"? So “Google before you tweet” is the new “Check your facts before posting nonsense to the Usenet, I always do”?

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2011/03/09/web-wisdom-google-be.html#comment-1048822 Donald Petersen Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1048822 Man, you said it. Our language has truly become irritatingly infantile. Man, you said it. Our language has truly become irritatingly infantile.

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