I love the internet. In fact - according to Smitty D. I AM the internet.
So today I am going to start a weekly installment series where I share something amazing that happened to me on the internet. With any luck I will point our intrepid readers at something new and exciting or perhaps so incredibly low brow that you simply say "Ew".
Today the hotness is Quora - I had never ever heard of Quora before today. I found it reading an article on TechCrunch about how they just got done releasing their brand new IOS app to bring all the Quora goodness right to the palm of your hand. So what does this have to do with you?!
Well if you are a blog reader like me you cannot get enough of interesting commentary about subjects that are interesting to you. Quora makes it possible for you to track Topics - and inside of those topics people like us are posting questions and anyone in the community is able to answer those questions. That all sounds a little bit too much like the silly yahoo tool that you get anytime you type a question into google - but bear with me a second. What you get are some of the most thoughtful/thought provoking responses to questions that matter to you (since you subscribed to the topics). I spent time today reading responses to why Gymnasts are shorter than non-gymnasts. How to blend God with Science (amazing answer tbh) and trying to understand the problem with geometry rules as they exist today with time measurements smaller than Planck units (or something like that). The startup topic was so active I had to remove it :P
The only downfall to it is that it looks like credibility can cause your answers to go up in popularity even if you dont have the best answer. This happened a bit more frequently in the business topics where someone with a CEO title would put some opinion in there and the answer might get voted up. Largely though I saw much more interesting information that I would have if I didn't visit Quora today.
Check it out - I do not think you will be disappointed and you can follow me over there. Although I am still searching for the right question to answer!
Source: TechCrunch
