Here’s something I don’t understand about the blogosphere and the internet in general

I know that speed is one of the things the most notable things about the internet. But why has “speed” (and its cousin “new”) squeezed out all of its other virtues?

We apologize for tardiness if we link to a news story that is three days old. We feel guilty if we link to a blog post from last week.

Getting breaking news fast is a great thing. On the other hand, the internet is also the world’s largest file cabinet. Millions of pages of good stuff are squirreled away. Seems a shame to ignore something because it was not written 90 minutes ago.

I discussed some of the problems with the fast/new obsession here.