Marshall Kirkpatrick
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

Marshall Kirkpatrick
ReadWriteWeb

What are you doing? How about now? Has anything changed yet since you started reading this blog post? Every story has a who, a what, a where, when, and why – but the event-driven nature of the social Web may be putting such a premium on broadcasting about what we’re doing, that software designed to help us answer important questions like who and why is at risk of being neglected.

Reflecting on the human condition was once a popular past-time. A lot of people used to read poetry, you may have heard. It may not be the Internet’s fault that we’re becoming less introspective – in fact the huge amount of activity data we’re sharing online offers incredible opportunities for reflection, for learning more about ourselves. It seems quite likely that we’re going to miss those opportunities because our software is focused entirely on doing (and advertising) instead of on helping us think as much as it could. Of course that’s much harder to do.

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