Chapter 7Building Rivers of Information
There’s a new Web dynamic created by the advent of social tools that can only be described as an explosion in the channels that provide information, opinions, thoughts, media, infographics, and statistics.
These channels are made up of information distribution systems like blogs, eNewsletters, twitter streams, RSS feeds, Facebook posts, discussion streams, and Web alerts. This doesn’t count systems that were built to push topic-specific types of information to people. The result of our world having access to these tools is that literally billions of people can now send information to billions of others. No filters from media companies, no costs to pay, and no way to stop where it might go and who might ...
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