blogosphere as filter

thanks to jon udell of infoworld who wrote on december 10th:

Just as telephones are meaningful only when connected to the telephone network, so blogs are meaningful only when connected to the blog network. Both are carriers of human communication, but where the telephone network is essentially fixed -- at least for now (...) -- the blog network is malleable and is shaped by our use of it. It’s more like a nervous system than a computer network, and for good reason.

The crush of information we process every day creates a terrible dilemma. On the one hand, we must conserve the scarce resource of attention. On the other hand, we need to become aware of everything that matters.

jon udell tells us what we know: that the blogosphere focuses our attention on the events and ideas that do matter...