Online Interest Followups Tutorial
Can you believe it was more than 30 years ago the US politician Al Gore coined the phrase …
Information Superhighway
? And then, in 2001, the great Wikipedia was launched, and quickly all those encyclopaedias in book form looked a bit wan.
As we have surmised often, where we see this “superhighway” excelling is on questions related to the “where” of life, and the quality and quantity of online maps is awe inspiring (as well as yours truly being a sucker for any interesting map).
Then, reading today in the Sydney Morning Herald online newspaper, an article called The Rajs bought into the Australian dream. It came with a nightmare (by Anthony Segaert) and scrolling down to see a map titled “The new growth centres in Sydney’s west” it was not only where these growth centres were located that caught our attention … it was also …
Huh?! We travel the M4 a lot, and never noticed creeks between the Nepean River and Eastern Creek (but will definitely be looking more the next time). We were intrigued, and so what started as geography interests (related to that great little South Creek or Wianamatta (and it’s 15 or so tributaries?!), went in various directions, as the online world is so good at getting us information.
That’s what is great, all those years into the “superhighway” age, but what we need more diligence with is “where” (again) your information comes from … it’s “providence”. Personally, we find comfort in the Wikipedias of this world that are Not For Profit in their thinking, and there is no apparent agenda. Of course, on any interest topic, you are likely to go to many websites that are not anything like Wikipedia, and we are not in any way saying “stay away”, it’s just that sometimes you should take an interest in whether your information source has a vested interest in pushing the information you read.
This read helped crystallize for me why at lunchtimes when working in Dunsheved near St Marys and going down the road for a breather those emus …
… probably had a ready water source!
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