Summarizing Information Overload Without Information Overload
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkMonday, May 2, 2005
Kuro5hin author rianjs wrote an article on information overload in our daily life. The article itself is a burning example of verbosity and useless information overload. Hence I decided to summarize (my commentaries are in italics in the end of each line) it for my readers:
- We are facing information overload - See Why can’t you pay attention anymore?
- Google does a nice job of searching - More Google love on the way
- Meta data helps - Duh
- Donald Knuth doesn’t communicate via email. - Good for him. We aren’t Donald Knuth.
- Repeatedly reveals his Google obsession.
- Thinks Google does it good tracking your search history (he loves to see his search history)- No Thanks!
- Pointless info about Alexandria and open source plug.
As you can see I could as well have summarized it into one sentence - We have information overload today.
Why am I writing this?
I just got frustrated reading a long-winding article about nothing, stating the obvious and coming from a respected source as kuro5hin. I expect better from them.
The original article (if you are a glutton for punishment).
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June 13, 2008: 2:27 pm
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Halfway through a two-week economic tour, Senator Barack Obama turned the topic to Social Security on Friday, sharply criticizing Senator John McCain for his stance and suggesting that Mr. McCain is a flip-flopper. “My opponent in this general election, John McCain – his idea of Social Security amounts to four more years of what was attempted and failed under George W. Bush,” Mr. Obama said, referring to Mr. McCain’s previous support of private accounts within Social Security. “Yesterday, he tried to deny that he ever took that position, which leads us to wonder if he had a change of heart or a change of politics.” Mr. Obama flew from Chicago this morning to take his economic message to this key swing state, and made his first and only public speech of the day to a group of fewer than 50 senior citizens at a retirement facility here. Speaking alongside his wife, Michelle, and the state’s Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, Mr. Obama laid out his plan for Social Security and retirement, which calls for an adjustment of the cap on the payroll tax, and to eliminate income tax for senior citizens making under $50,000 a year. Mr. Obama told the crowd that the “tax cuts for the rich” that Mr. McCain has proposed would provide “essentially no benefits to the vast majority of senior citizens.” Some economic policy analysts have criticized Mr. Obama’s plans, suggesting that the tax system already adequately protects low-income older Americans. The McCain campaign quickly issued a statement responding to Mr. Obama’s speech, saying that Mr. Obama’s tax proposals would raise taxes for some senior citizens “Barack Obama likes to think that his tax increases will only hit a few Americans, but in truth, his economic plan will be a disaster for everyone, especially seniors,” said Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman. The two-week economic tour continues on Saturday in Philadelphia, and on Monday and Tuesday in Michigan. |
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