[FRIAM] Despite the Web, Americans Remain Woefully Ill-Informed

[Marcus G. Daniels]

steve smith wrote:
> 2) The internet, in my opinion, is still mainly a reference source...  
> Somewhere between a dictionary or encyclopedia and a newspaper or 
> magazine subscription.
>
> If people aren't interested in these kinds of facts, they won't look 
> them up and they won't "subscribe" (e-mail lists, blogs, podcasts, 
> news/information web sites) to sources that provide them.  
With more kinds of appealing facts accessible (ranging from gossip blogs 
to online academic journals),  and assuming fixed available attention by 
individuals, then we should expect per-individual knowledge of any 
particular topic to be reduced...