a moment

in the morning, while i drink my coffee and start mentally organising my priorities for the day, i like to cherrypick and browse a few of my favourite feeds. this morning was a particularly good day with posts ranging on a wide variety of topics which were smart and well composed.

i love this about the internet. scratch the surface and there is independent opinion content which is often written with just friends & family members in mind. it’s written by intelligent people who write for love (ok and maybe some google adwords income, but no one i know is heading for early retirement from that just yet…) some are people who have been putting stuff online for years - sometimes it’s silly pictures or a video they like or my favourite: the longer text which i sometimes save or clip or share but always think about long after i’ve closed a browser. this is the good stuff and if you’re missing this, you’re missing the point.

how could we have similar experience with anything else? the newspaper has selected articles focussed for a broad audience & concerned with sales. you might like to read it with your coffee in the morning but that’s a totally different experience and activity. television - for me anyway - requires either too much focus and/or time. say what you will about “silly” blogs or how the internet is bloated with “ugc crap” - sure, in some cases it is - but consider all the other media that is bloated with all the magazines you don’t read or subjects you don’t care about (sports section!) - and that’s media you’re paying for.

appreciate the good because you can filter out the bad. read blogs. email the authors. talk to people. link it all up and appreciate connection, shared lives. relax. it won’t hurt.