My shopping list becomes as valuable as Cormac McCarthy 's latest book. Stoll Consider today's online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post message across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard clearly and instantly.
Every voice is heard.
The cacophony more closely resembles citizen's band radio, complete with handles, harassments and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is that the Internet is an ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. Logged on the WWW, I hunt for data for the Battle of Trafalagar .