Noise Overload

We live in a world of information overload, right? Wrong. What we call information is just noise, the noise that prevents us from finding the actual information.

Noise is everywhere: news, blogs, comments, from people who make absolutely no research to verify the facts and make no effort to refrain from publishing useless sets of words stuck together, eventually wasting all readers time in an effort to generate traffic, advertising revenues, or just attract attention. The more spectacular the news is, the less information it contains, but the better it sells.

Comments can be very informative and are essential to the democratic nature of the web, but how many stupidities can we read out there? An almost complete waste of time.

I read hundreds of posts and news stories everyday trying to locate information and publish on my blog only what I believe is meaningful, so that people reading my blogs do not have to do what I have to do every day. Sometimes I too add to the noise but I am trying my best to post verified and useful information. You will not find on my blog the list of every electric car coming on the market next year. I try to post only about true novelties or at least things I have never wrote about in the past, so that if you read all my posts you won't read twice the same thing and that hopefully you learn something at every post.

If we could write a software to extract the information from the noise, it would be priceless.