July 31, 2003
Feeling content, seeing content, being content.
I’ve observed an interesting bit of my own online behaviour lately, and though I should mention it. As much as I’ve loved using NetNewsWire to pull together and display absolutely ludicrous amounts of aggregated news and bloggerisms in a single, unadorned window — I’ve found myself drifting back to my browser and my bookmark list. My desire to see the author’s words in the context of the original intended design of their site has been outweighing my need for brute-force headline scanability and the speed at which I can process the data. Returning to the browser slows me down. Not slower in the sense of being more efficient. And not necessarily in terms of the amount of actual time it takes launching and opening and clicking and surfing. I find that by navigating from site to site, I am ‘browsing’ the information again, pulling out the interesting tidbits and diving off tangentially through various tabs and windows. This is opposed to simply consuming, digesting, and quite frankly excreting, mass quantities of information. I’m seeing similarities in my browsing and discovery habits that can be compared the slow food movement. A ‘slow web’ movement? It’s working for me.
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