EXTRACTS FROM "THE INFORMATION DIET"
//Big Info
PG35,
The AOL way is to
decrease the costs and increase the profitability of the content the company
produces.
//Welcome to
Information Obesity
PG59,
The more informed
someone is, the more hardened their beliefs become.
"One of the
more striking features of the cotemporary conservative movement is the extend
to which it has been moving toward epistemic
closure. Reality is defined by a multimedia array of interconnected and
cross promoting conservative blogs, radio programs, magazines, etc. Whatever
conflicts with that reality can be dismissed out of hand because it comes from
the liberal media, and is therefore ipso facto not to be trusted. And how do
you know they are liberals? Well, they disagree with the conservative
media…" -Julian Sanchez
//SYMPTOMS OF
INFORMATION OBESITY
PG65,
The dangerous thing
about information obesity is that it's a bit more nefarious. It's difficult to
tell if you are suffering from information obesity or have poor information
consumption habits...Socrate's view on this was simple: just accept your own ignorance
as the only thing to be certain about.
PG66,
Buteyko Breathing exercises:
The Buteyko method proposes the use of breathing exercises as a treatment
for asthma as well as other conditions. The method takes its name
from Ukrainian doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (Ukrainian: Бутейко) (1923 – 2003), who first formulated its principles
during the 1950s.
This
method is based on the assumption that numerous medical conditions, including
asthma, are caused by chronically increased respiratory rate or
deeper breathing .
This method
purportedly retrains the breathing pattern through chronic repetitive breathing
exercises to correct the hyperventilation, which, according to the method's
proponents, will therefore treat or cure asthma as well as any other conditions
purportedly caused by hyperventilation. At the core of the Buteyko method is a
series of reduced-breathing exercises that focus on nasal-breathing,
breath-holding and relaxation.
//DATA LITERACY
PG 83,
Google's Fusion
Tables, Socrata, Factual: tools to organize and visualize big data
//ATTENTION FITNESS
PG 91,
Sanebox.com: filters
unimportant emails to another folder
//HOW TO CONSUME
PG 108,
Mass affirmation is
the refined sugar of the mind
Too much weight to
information that’s not actionable and relevant to our daily lives