HI FRIENDS:
BELOW IS THE TEXT OF MY POST TO MY CLASSMATE ROBERT ROBERT IN OUR DISCUSSION WEEK FIVE COM 6630 FOR OUR CLASS STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS AND EMERGING MEDIA:
I like what you said about blogs being in their infancy. The pace of change has become so fast that it has overtaken time itself. So much is happening simultaneously that the "click whirr" of Cialdini is going on constantly in most of our lives. To keep up with the dizzying pace of life, we all have made adaptations, but these cannot fully help us navigate the speedy rapids of life today. In fact, the rapids of a river are the perfect analogy to today's sped up world. We all know that rapids mean a cliff is ahead. The only question is, how steep? If any on you have visited Niagara Falls, or seen good pictures, you know the falls are steep. Not all falls are steep. But steep falls kill.
Check this out:
"Niagara Falls is a site to behold. Consisting of the American Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls & the Canadian Falls, the majesty and the power is overwhelming. Niagara Falls has the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world and the water that falls over the vertical drop of 165 feet plunges onto jagged rocks below. Awe inspiring, Niagara Falls has drawn tourists for centuries. Starting in the 1820s, as tourism picked up at Niagara Falls, a new breed of individual would begin to arrive at Niagara along with the site-seers, artists, environmentalists and honeymooners: the daredevil.
Several people hoped for instant fame performing daredevil stunts while at the Falls. In 1829, Sam Patch would dive into the Niagara River first at 85ft above the water and later that year at a height of 130ft. The Great Farini, Maria Spelterini and Jean Francois Gravelot, aka “The Great Blondin” would cross the Niagara River Gorge on a tightrope in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Frank M. Brown would swim across the Niagara River and Walter Campbell and his dog Jumbo would navigate the category 6 whirlpool rapids in the 80s. Also in the 1880s, Carlisle Graham, a barrel maker, successfully navigated the rapids and started the famous connection between Niagara Falls and barrels. They all wouldn’t survive. Niagara would claim almost as many lives as it did create overnight sensations. Even the survivors didn’t all become famous or wealthy. In fact, it is now a crime to “stunting without a license” and the fine is currently $10,000. This hasn’t prevented people from trying, however. The Niagara Falls daredevils were the original thrill-seekers and adrenaline junkies.
While the first person wouldn’t go over the Horseshoe Falls (the American Falls are too rocky for anyone to survive) until 1901, it wouldn’t the first stunt to involve a trip over edge. In 1827, a boat full of animals were the first to go over the Falls and of the dozen animals aboard (some tied and caged to the boat) only a goose survived the fall. And not every survivor was a daredevil. Seven-year-old Roger Woodward survived a boating accident and was rescued by a Maid of the Mist boat. Two men survived going over the Falls in 2009 and 2012. This list focuses on the daredevils; those who deliberately went over the Falls with hopes of conquering the mighty Niagara. Perhaps it was lure of the ultimate challenge; surviving a trip over the Falls. There was no greater challenge; the ultimate man versus nature spectacular. Here is a rare list, a handful of people who attempted to conquer Niagara; some who succeed and others who died trying."
Here is the link to the above:
http://listverse.com/2012/06/02/10-daredevils-of-niagara-falls/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Falls#/media/File:3Falls_Niagara.jpg
MY POINT?
We are living in perilous times when the speed of nearly everything has reached a crescendo . The speed at which we can access information makes it easier for us to access false information and go with it. I find myself rarely looking beyond the first or second page OF a Google search. The information is coming to me fast, and I am trying to understand fast, and I therefore select the first thing that appeals to me.
BRINGING IT BACK TO BLOGS
BECAUSE everyone can access information, including blogs, and potentially everyone can make a blog, the fact that blogs are still in their infancy struck me as an important point to elaborate upon. Perhaps the future of blogs is a CURATED "Readers Digest" of blogs. A digest of blogs will allow us to condense the important points in blogs and succinctly tell us what they are saying. We simply do not have time to read it all, and not all is worth reading anyway.
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