Re: Content, The Net, Curiosity
Suzanne Alejandre (salejan@e2.empirenet.com)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:28:16 -0800
Dear Barry,
>The most valuable commodity on the internet is content.
>It's lack is apparent to everyone that surfs.
>The abundance of glitz and graphics that disguise
>lack of content is the discouragement of the Net.
I agree! One idea that I learned from my teachers at
the Math Forum was to be considerate of all levels of
access.....taking care not to get too glitzy or too
heavy on graphics!
>I am convinced that the Web affords the opportunity
>to present content (at all educational levels) and
>that hypertext (and very likely even animated gifs,
>server push, client pull and ostensibly goofy programs)
>have the ability to invoke the viewer's curiosity to
>keep on going further--to pursue an idea or a concept
>or subject through all kinds of twists and turns.
I often wonder if we are becoming frenetic in how we look
at information. Actually I thought of it this morning as
I was reading the newspaper. I found myself jumping from
topic to topic much faster than is my normal style.
Is this a way to gain more information? or filter
information? so that we can spend time on what is important?
or are we just going to become superficial information
gatherers?
Suzanne Alejandre