By Clay A. Johnson
The glossy human animal spends upwards of eleven hours out of each 24 in a country of continuous intake. now not consuming, yet gorging on info endlessly spewed from the displays and audio system we carry expensive. simply as we now have grown morbidly overweight on sugar, fats, and flour—so, too, have we develop into gluttons for texts, fast messages, emails, RSS feeds, downloads, video clips, prestige updates, and tweets.
We're all combating a typhoon of distractions, buffeted with notifications and tempted by means of tasty tidbits of data. And simply as an excessive amount of junk nutrition may end up in weight problems, an excessive amount of junk details can result in cluelessness. The info Diet exhibits you the way to thrive during this details glut—what to seem for, what to prevent, and the way to be selective. within the procedure, writer Clay Johnson explains the position info has performed all through historical past, and why following his prescribed vitamin is vital for everybody who strives to be shrewdpermanent, efficient, and sane.
In The info Diet, you will:
* observe why eminent students are apprehensive approximately our country of cognizance and normal intelligence
* study how today’s media—Big Info—give us precisely what we need: content material that confirms our ideals
* discover ways to take steps to improve information literacy, recognition health, and a fit humorousness
* turn into engaged within the economics of knowledge by means of studying tips to present reliable info prone
* similar to a standard, fit nutrients nutrition, The info Diet isn't approximately eating less—it’s approximately discovering a fit stability that works for you <ul/>
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Com/2011/08/17/journalist-crowdsources-an-article-about-a-crowdsourcingcompany-hilarity-ensues/ 36 Part I: Introduction and videos of Sarah Palin riding a motorcycle. The age of the oldest female bodybuilder as of this writing, by the way, is 74. These articles aren’t written by people with a journalism background. They’re written by freelancers—independent contractors—who needn’t be provided any healthcare or retirement benefits. For content farmers, they’re simply credited—about $15 for a written piece of content, $20 for a video—directly to their bank account.
Winston Churchill (attributed) I hate to bring up partisan politics; it generally doesn’t do much good when one is trying to make any form of argument. But it turns out that if I look back at the times in my life when I have had a recognizably bad information diet, they’re the times when I’ve been knee-deep in politics. Working in politics is an amazing opportunity to try to affect change, sure. But it’s also a great way to pick up a disease called delusion. In the summer of 2003, I packed my bags and headed up to New England to work as the lead programmer for the insurgent presidential candidate, Howard Dean.
Chapter 2: Information, Power, and Survival 21 moral panic. Panic? 18 Electricity came with a set of critics, too: the electric light could inform miscreants that women and children were home. The lightbulb was a recipe for total social chaos. These Luddite folk tales are funny, looking back. But other criticisms have gained traction over the centuries. Our connection to the teachings of Socrates, for instance, is through the written word of Plato, because Socrates was vehemently against the written word.