January 6, 2003

  • Which of these activities occupies more of your time: foraging for food or surfing the Web? Probably the latter. We're all informavores now, hunting down and consuming data as our ancestors once sought woolly mammoths and witchetty grubs. You may even buy your groceries online.


    —Rachel Chalmers, "Surf like a Bushman," New Scientist, November 11, 2000


    Information foraging theory...views humans as informavores, continually seeking information from our environment. In a sense we are foraging for information, a process with parallels to how animals forage for food. For both human and animal there are cues in the environment that help us judge whether to continue foraging in the same location or to forage elsewhere.

    —Jason Withrow, "Do your links stink?,"     American Society for Information Science Bulletin, June 1, 2002


    But if 'surfing' is akin to 'foraging', might not 'blogging' be akin to 'food preparation and dining'?! 


    surfing:foraging :: blogging:dining ...


    So we are, more aptly, blogavores . 


    Well, I've only been a semi-blogavore lately as I've posted from abroad (the food preparation simile), but have done little commenting (the dining simile), yet have dined to surfeit on your comments.  A sense of balance now begs a redress.  So I'm off to feast on some of your blogs.  But don't bother with any table setting--since revisiting the jungle of Panama, I now tear into prepared dishes visciously with my hands alone.  *licks fingers*

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