But it seems my understanding of the Internet should be broad and deep after all this time and attention. Instead, after an intense 18 months of study, I feel like I'm losing ground. My ability to keep up with the exploding new technologies fall short of the stream of rapid changes. Then it hit me. Or more correctly, two things hit me.
Nobody has an understanding of the Internet that is both broad and deep.
And two, you only need to know about what's being used, not what's being developed. This revelation has greatly improved my life. I don't expect to be able to dump my magazines and pick a novel anytime soon, but I think I've learned a way to understand the tidal wave of breaking Internet technology. My old way of reading everything about the Internet is so twenty minutes ago. Guess what, smarty pants, ecommerce isn't about what's being released.