Clip and snip and glimpse
Today I was spending my morning as I usually do reading various newspapers and I noticed an article on how the military has stopped delivering 13 different websites to military personnel to free up bandwidth to be used in recover efforts in Japan, a smart move for sure. I had no idea Amazon, MTV, Metecafe's websites was literally getting in the way of any military operations.
I am used to MTV.com and sites like that getting in the way of organizing deeper thoughts (watch a couple episodes of Jersey Shore and you'll know what I mean), and it made me look at the sites on the list.
Metecafe for instance is pretty much a video-clip site. Clips of videos, parts of movies, parts of TV shows, just a lot of parts. The internet is almost literally filled with this, larger things, cut-down, copied and pasted and re-delivered.
Is it just me, or are you ever frustrated trying to find an entire show, or the original article. I worry about our complete understanding of anything.
Did Cliff's Notes really help you study as they were intended, or was it a short cut so you could read 30 pages and not 500? I think somewhere over the last ten years or so we have turned everything into this.
I understand we are all getting busier so the little status updates and tweets and clips may be all we have time for, but I think there is a cautionary tale to be told.
Here is the full list of the websites temporarily blocked:
Youtube.com
Googlevideo.com
Amazon.com
ESPN.go.com
eBay.com
Doubleclick.com
Eyewonder.com
Pandora.com
streamtheworld.com
Mtv.com
Ifilm.com
Myspace.com
Metacafe.com
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