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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

• EllieAsksWhy 16y ago
  Uncommonly good post about venture capital. Check out this comment too, by Ed Borasky (applied mathematician and media inactivist): http://bit.ly/f7nTYp http://bit.ly/f7nTYp Many other good comments, Mark S. responded to most.
• iuguy 16y ago
  I find it quite interesting. For me, aside from email all of the areas he touches on constitute noise, angelgate, bin38, all that jazz. Obviously it's noise to me because I'm completely disconnected from that world. I definitely agree that we're growing into a world where there is a heck of a lot more noise, in fact compared to the 90s I'd say it's pretty deafening these days. I hope that people have become smarter consumers of media and discussion to cope with this, to be able to spot obvious spin and hopefully see through it. But as we grow used to the noise around us I wonder if there's still a place for a disruptive technology that filters noise and provides us only with signal. Would users feel as though they're missing out? Would the quiet make them feel unsettled?
  • rhizome 16y ago
    As you get older you know how to pay attention to more things, or at least recognize them. It's not that it's noisier, our grandparents said the same thing, it's that older people's attentions can be grabbed by more things, their noise filters are stuck in the past. The younger someone is the less likely they'll clog their brain with stuff like knowing who Hugh Downs is, or having commercials trigger a memory.
  • Travis 16y ago
    That's the general trend that I see shaping the growth of the internet, actually. At first, it was "how do I find XYZ?" Now it's more of "How do I find the right/best XYZ?" because there are dozens of discoverable XYZ destinations available. At first it was discovery, then it was user generation. Now that there's exabytes of data out there, how do you filter it?