Ryan Holmes Quotes

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

There are lots of new products and new services making adding content easier. But there's not many people on the other side helping users digest that content.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

I'm on Twitter, I'm on HuffPo, just any website - you go down a rabbit hole. You start out on HuffPo, then you get a link to this, you get a link to that. Or an article, or a blog. One thing leads to another.

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.