It's like advocating against alcohol on campus. Or nitrogen in the atmosphere. Or fleas on dogs. Except that it's not merely impractical to the point of impossibility, it's antithetical to the nature of the Internet, which is to be a repository for all types of information, not merely that which ivory-towered individuals would deem worthy. It's a ludicrous assertion -- who determines when information is excessive? -- which seems positioned as a conversation-starter or a carryover to another topic, but when I got to his declaration of spam as "time pollution" my eyes rolled until they sprung out of my head and went scooting across the floor and it took all day to coax them back into my skull. I'm no fan of spam either, but he does strike me as near-hysterical on this topic.
It's disheartening for me, because JN has a reputation as an Internet guru, and I can agree with most of his initial ideas and yet almost none of his resulting conclusions. At best I think this recent deluge of content should be laden with caveats, at worst ignored altogether.
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Date: 2005-10-17 09:04 pm (UTC)It's disheartening for me, because JN has a reputation as an Internet guru, and I can agree with most of his initial ideas and yet almost none of his resulting conclusions. At best I think this recent deluge of content should be laden with caveats, at worst ignored altogether.