Help is always a few clicks away! And while Google search results can be overwhelming, especially if you share with me the belief that popularity does not equal relevance. But that’s material for another post, on another venue, half way between information overflow, and infosnacking lays the sweet spot of trusted sources. We all have a selected few sources that we trust, be it WikiPedia, Google, Amazon, a handful of bloggers, or uncle Sal; each one of them is trusted within a particular context, some wider than others, some deeper, but all in all they form our collective trusted information Brands.
There’s a guy named Guy, who just posted Top Ten Leonard Tips, so if you are in the process of upgrade your Mac to OS X 10.5, I trust this guy Guy, if you trust me, you should trust him (he trusts this).
In a time where repositories of information like the WikiPedia, Amazon.com, Google, your local bookstore, or your local library are more available than ever, most solutions to problems can be found pronto! It is so easy it feels like cheating! Often time is not the how that stops people, it the why. Either the why was not addressed, or was not addressed properly, or was someone else’s why that is being solved.
Never trust someone that says “Trust me!”; trust me on this.