“Information overload” is one of those obnoxious clichés that people like to mutter when they feel overwhelmed by an unqualified Google search, a particularly creepy Facebook profile, or, well, any page on Wikipedia that involves pop culture or some kind of obscure reference.
A gratuitous amount of trivia oozes out of this series of tubes every day. I’ll leave the balance of that phrase to your perverted imagination, but here’s the point: with all that data echoing around, is there real, tangible value to be had from it? What does our collective voice sound like, and when we listen closely, what does it tell us?
To try and answer that question, this blog is all about abstraction and unconventional wisdom. We’re going to find humor in the humorless, beauty in the hideous, and brilliance in the inane.
High concept? Sure. But low brow.
DataSpoke.com isn’t about primary sources, it’s about secondary ones. Read a comment someone left that you felt was +5 insightful? Brilliant, let us know! Who’s spamming Digg lately? We’ll bite. Run across an “Epic Thread?” Give it a tug. We want to see what unravels.
Talkbacks, comments, communities and social networks. Here’s to the flamers, the grammer nazis, the fanboys and the trolls. Independantly you’re opinions are worthless, but together you make up the fabric of this potato sack we call the Internet. Let’s fill it full of doorknobs and have a swing.