IF THE UNSUBSTANTIAL sound bite is the shame of televised
election coverage, then information overload is the parallel pitfall on
the Internet.
After spending one interminable day in October reviewing Web
coverage of the presidential campaign, I can verify that the online
universe is indeed infinite, and that politics, not pornography,
seemed the most prolific theme.
Stunned by thousands of news articles, background pieces,
surveys, discussion forums, transcripts and commentary, this
human brain nearly screamed for spoon-fed mush. Election sections
on most of the major news sites were so enormous that a person
couldn't possibly process all the sections and subsections and
sub-subsections. About 20 percent of the stuff seemed digestible; the
rest was far......
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