Here are some of the things I have looked up on Google recently!
Where do I find a good lemon rice recipe? What should I do to improve my sleep? What are the best ways to get to zero Inbox? What is the meaning of visual literacy?
All these questions were not immediately answered and I often found several resources that led to helpful videos, podcasts and books to learn more deeply about the world around us.
Everyone does this obviously, but who is providing us with these answers? It is not a search engine that is doing it. Normal people like you and I are writing online, publishing things they know about or thoughts and ideas they would like to synthesise a bit.
Connected micro-communities with their histories around a blog or website is what makes the internet the most powerful force in our world.
All that you have read online and enjoyed, has been created by someone. Someone ready to be vulnerable enough to put out their thoughts online and invite others into their minds.
People who publish on the open web are the natives of this beautiful world.
So if you have something to share, a photo, a poem, or some thoughts on a book – blog about it and save the internet.
PS: I wrote this after reading this post by Matt Mullenweg (co-founder of WordPress).
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