Information overload and/or closet organizers.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.

You, too can earn a living with visuals.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
July 8th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I’m trying to figure out where “the kitchen junk drawer” or “the stuff in the attic”, not to mention “inside a little boy’s pockets” would fit in this graph.
Thanks for the chuckle.
July 8th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Perhaps in a world without search this would be true.
But when there are advanced search technologies (e.g. Google), it’s pretty easy to get quality even when simply accumulating.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
What an amazing coincidence - I see this on the day I got fed up with my wife’s accumulation of “junk” in the kitchen drawer!! She took the boys swimming while I cleaned out the drawer … I am proud that I have undoubtedly tilted our kitchen drawer towards “curation” … at least for the next few weeks/months!!
July 8th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
As an assistant curator, I can tell you that this graph may not be exactly 100% accurate.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Nice!
July 10th, 2009 at 10:42 am
The function on which both accumulation and curation data points lie could be called “excavation.” I used to own a junk removal company. I am also an OCD lifer. One day, I got hired by a man who had saved all his magazines his whole life. Turns out we shared the same doctor, but he had been off his meds. So maybe the z-axis could be “treatment”.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:20 am
i dunno… i think that curation (is that a word?) might have more quantity than the minimal expressed here.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
medium/high quantity & quality = collector
November 21st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
[...] From Indexed. (http://thisisindexed.com/2009/07/information-overload-andor-closet-organizers/) [...]