Weinberger Leadership Presentation

During our group discussion regarding fun activities the class would enjoy participating in, we came up with this idea of, let's call it, "getting lost within the internet". On a regular basis people can average probably visiting over 10 connecting websites via hyperlinks from a sole page. What would happen if you kept clicking hyperlinks from every page that you came across during a random trip through the net?

Our plan: to have the whole class all start on one website (a few to choose from of course), make them click at least ten to fifteen hyperlinks, and see where they would end up. Then, of course - write about it and explain their experience.

*sort of like the Wikipedia game mentioned in class, only bigger

...................................so, I tried it...............................

I went from a respectable news site to an actors self page of promotion after only 5 clicks. Amazing, the ground you can cover via the net is pretty much immeasurable.

That being said: I do agree with Weinberger's point of " the Internet is a distracting and ‘dizzying’ place that can often lead us to unexpected places". I, myself, was getting dizzy by all the side bars, ads, and the amount of hyperlinks shown. Distractions are behind every click, which in turn, gets users off their initial searches the majority of the time.

There's no way I or anyone else have the time or the energy to see everything on the internet. The amount of information that is made available to us through the World Wide Web is immense. Yes, its free flowing, which, I guess is a plus, but there's no barriers. It's a never ending track that we all keep running. There is no end, like a book or article. There's always a point, an opinion, an argument being made, a different side being shown, an ad to click, or a picture to see on the internet.