The Next American Epidemic - Mind Obesity from GetGrok.com

by Shyam Patel on Mar 04, 2010

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Learn how to join the content revolution at GetGrok.com. If you are what you eat then you are what Internet content you consume. If Digg, Twitter, and most blog content can be compared to junk food where is the Whole Foods of Internet content? How did we end up with so much Internet content that has more in common with a tabloid and what we can do to combat it.

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The Next American Epidemic - Mind Obesity from GetGrok.com — Webinar Transcript

OBESITY in America Footer Presentation: Oh Snap! He’s doing 2 presentations in 5 mins.

MIND OBESITY: The Next Epidemic Footer Presentation: No time 4 donuts, its time 2 get on a treadmill 4 UR mind

4 the Avg. person 80% of their communications takes place with only 4-5 people

Don’t get me wrong I luv blogs, but they have a limited use case

Catherine Zeta-Jones overcame mind obesity & so can U 4 just $19.99

Engadget recently hid comments on their blog, guess no 1 liked their iPad treats

Snappy Headlines Write less Bullet Lists Lots of Keywords Tons of Links If 1 blog post = 5 cups of sugar how many would U read?

“ There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.” -Thomas Edison See Wikipedia entry for: Grok

BTW Don’t even get me started on SEO & Content Farming

If Linus Torvalds is only 2 degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon, how come U aren’t?

See Wikipedia entry for: Homophily

YouTube = America’s Funniest Home Videos, Podcast = place & time shifted radio Knowledge and Insight Twitter Posterous Tumblr Blogs A “New” New Media Format

OR... Education is necessary 4 a capitalist democracy 2 survive in the long run; education is the gr8 equalizer & lk justice must B blind.

Form... Function... Experience Web/UX design that pays proper homage 2 the written word

Wait this presenter uses twitter @shyampatel what a hypocrite!

Digital Economic Civic Digital Lit. for Rupert Murdoch, Economic Lit. for Bank Execs., Civic Lit. for Ted Stevens

Don’t join the apathetic & ineffectual ranks of our generation; see ItStartsWith.Us

Yes I am serious about this issue, I am putting my money where my mouth is

As Smokey the Blogger would say, “Only U can prevent Mind Obesity”

I’m a rebel with a cause, please join us in the fight against mind obesity Join the content revolution: www.GetGrok.com or Email Us: [email_address]

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by Shyam Patel on Mar 04, 2010

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