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You just can’t make that much signal in a day

Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Chris.
Categories: Chris.

How much information can you produce in one day?

There are hundreds of newspapers across the globe, but if you took the national stories and put them together, a lot of them are about the same things. If you combine today’s papers with last week’s, you find that there’s even less new information – you could compress the whole story into, say, an eventual Wikipedia article, where a few sentences are enough to cover the salient points.

If you spent your whole day thinking, maybe you could come up with a blog post of information. But undoubtably tomorrow’s post would contain themes from previous posts.

The blogosphere, television, news…they all have the same problem. There’s not too much to say, but the talking never ceases. Modern media is a producer of raw content, not a way to digest it and put it into context.

What’s the best way to create a source of fully digested content?

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