ITCOW [L]

Reading

this, it makes me wonder about my own field of work and the actual running
of ITCoW. It’s more of a hobby and interest, somewhere that I post about my course of
work, photos whatever, a place I let off steam sometimes but that article really
got me thinking. What are the effects of giving out information for free? Is it
making people think lesser and the interest to learn lighten? Information at
this age and time is easily gotten, too easily at times that we do not and are
not keen enough to learn more at times.

I have thought that TV was good, I mean it is and that cable TV is a must in
Singapore as there are just times we sit there and just do not know what
information we want to learn today. It’s a barrier to the mind with the effect
of like there is nothing to surf no more. There can never be "nothing" to surf
on the Internet. TV was something like a spark for me, making me think of things
that I never knew I was interested in. How survivors are after Hurricane
Katrina, the Circle Line was actually covered by the Discovery Line, engineering
marvel? I do not know, we’ll have to find out 28 Aug after the screening.

Have people become just plain lazy with online forums springing up every so
often and there’s just information overloading. Are we loading ourselves with
too much information? There’s also the seemingly endless stream of e-mail
messages, I have up to 3 accounts I check actively and another 3 that I check
weekly. I have unknowingly developed my own ways of filtering things I do not
want to read or know as there’s just too much to know about something. There has
got to be a limit, a stoppage, a personal barrier to what extent you want that
information. Photography, I enjoy it but have not intention of doing it full
time, having and knowing what I like to shoot limits my information gathering,
not to mention my spending too.

Back to that

article. "Information should be given free as some said and keep saying
since a long time ago thus they hacked and still hack. That site is popular, I
enjoy reading up on the kind of flash effects and techniques that he has
gathered over the years as a professional photographer, should he one day charge
for information, it’ll just be another site springing up later. It’s his bread
and butter. The Internet has breed this kind of behavior, the "why pay when I
can get it somewhere else for free" attitude.

Have we also come to also stop innovating or we’re just doing it not fast
enough anymore? Have we stop upgrading ourselves and have stopped and confine
ourselves to the current technologies. It’s a void that needs to be filled. We
should never stopped learning especially in the field of I.T where we move move
move, fast, fast, fast. I’ve seen too many people stopped learning, they say the
pace is just too fast but no matter what they have pursue after IT, they should
not stop being interested in IT, it’s just how something innovative gets
invented later, In The Course of Work.