No, I’m not a fan of the new Stumbleupon. The new StumbleUpon has been so slow and the content is worse than the old one. I am seeing more duplication of information. Maybe its time to look for another curation engine.
The more time you spend on the Internet the more you discover that Internet content is almost 80% recycled.
Before you call me a hypocrite, yes I know that I feature best-of lists and talk about things that have been discussed before. So why am I bring this up? Because StumbleUpon, Twitter and other social services seem to make this problem worse not better.
For the third time I have found StumbleUpon saying that I have reached the end of its suggestions for me. Is this a sign of Stumbling too much, or being too picky in what I like? More importantly is there better things I can do with my time then looking at recycled content? I think yes.
As you may have noticed, I am updating on average about 3 posts per day. Sometimes it is more if I have extra time. I have been studying more lately because I want to learn as much as I can in life and time in short. In particular I find increasingly that StumbleUpon has far too much recycled content, and not enough original things. It’s like going to the most popular rack in the library and seeing a limited selection of works. Fun, but rather boring after a while.
My goal is to bring original content to this website daily. This is difficult because I have seen that as the media outlets go out of business, less original content is made. I wonder if the economics of people not paying for news, will result in one ultimate news provider. I wonder if our apathy doesn’t kill us, but just misinform us which is worse?