What’s great about the Internet is how a story can become viral. And not just a prank video but a report or study that helps people improve their lives or a story that inspires. Sure, some of these studies change from year to year, first wine is good for our health and then not, or one of those types of studies. But what I’m talking about is when you drill down in the area you’re interested in and find an interview by an artist or an author that you like. Of course there are a lot of viral stories about a celebrity who did this and said this and made a human error when they were angry and did this. Yeah, everything is now caught on cell phones or video cameras.
There’s a fine line here. The Internet does allow you to sift down into what you’re interested and follow what’s going on in your world of interest. And then that article or story can rise to the top pretty quickly at sites like Digg or amongst friends and beyond. I’ve seen the most popular or most emailed articles get second lives, coming back to become the most emailed article again.
Then there’s just Google it. Do we even need to ask somebody something anymore? I can come home and ask what the score of the game was or I can just go to ESPN and see what happened.
My brother was talking to me about how new media is further advancing. How they are showing a ballet being performed in NY at a local theater in Idaho. I think that’s great. Or logging in to watch a live concert. I pay for that. Or I recently saw a competition for poets where they had a specific amount of time to write a poem and all of their edits, word changes, misteps and so on were recorded online while they developed the poem.