One skill we all have learned since joining the net, is to filter
information of all kinds. Sometimes we do it by means of software or
filtrators/moderators, most of the time I for one do it by myself. For
instance, I delete spam manually (Yeah, I can hear your "wow!"s :)) without
even looking. That takes me about 2 seconds. The same goes for lousy
expressed searches on one of the big search engines ("4972846 queries
matched your search"). OK, reformulate, search again. 10 secs, or sometimes
10 mins or 1 hour. But all the "junk" I come across in that process tells
me something about the world, and I sometimes end up using it somehow. Art
by accident?
Lets stay heterogenous. And engaged. This discussion suddenly means a lot
to me. Hmmm. And Leonard, in my view you should make a printout of this
whole discussion and let your students take it further.
cu
Per
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