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David Weinberger: Blogs and salad bars
Merlin Mann | Mar 17 2006
NPR : Reading Blogs Is a Time-Consuming Endeavor David Weinberger has a short, funny commentary on the explosion of blogs — and of the expectation by anyone who starts a blog that everyone they know should be keeping up with every word they post. Very funny and true, but this wonderful sentence in particular jumped out as the best summation of modern media bloat I’ve heard in a while:
The best thing you can do today is figure out what you’re taking from that 15 feet of your life each day. Hint: don’t load up on iceberg lettuce and onions. 1 Comment
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