January 27, 2009 · 7:40 am
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Change Index: Week One

Sure, it’s simplistic, but I kind of like this way of representing “change” as promised by the Obama administration in form of a file transfer. I hope the folks at “Good News” keep it going over time.

“Net Changiness” — excellent.

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4 Responses to Change Index: Week One

  1. Ti-Guy
    January 27, 2009 at 8:37 am

    Sure, it’s simplistic…

    Possibly, but it is based on actual events that have real consequences: executive orders. The media commands so much of our attention with respect to government with gossip (ie. ‘anonymous sources’), pointless speculation and assertions that are never examined that we lose sight of what actually matters.

    It’s similar to how I think of reporting on court cases. Unless one finds as a matter of taste the entire judicial process engrossing (which I don’t), the only things worth paying attention to are generally the evidence, the verdict and the sentencing.

    All of this is important in being able to remember what what happens over a period of months and years. Very few people have the encyclopedic memories required to keep track of all the detail we’re bombarded with daily, which is why most people are distracted and can’t remember what happened last week.

  2. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 8:45 am

    That’s certainly true.

    Regarding court cases, I could care less about the process but I love reading legal opinions and decisions. They always seem to get short shrift in the media however — not enough “action” or “drama” I suppose.

  3. Ti-Guy
    January 27, 2009 at 10:40 am

    They always seem to get short shrift in the media however

    Exactly. How often do we find out what happened to all the “criminals” they arrest, day after day? This is in fact what contributes to the public’s perception that crime is a bigger problem than it is, since there’s no attention payed to the type of crime that’s increasing or decreasing or to the circumstances what led to the crime or how the justice system dealt with it, which is what the average person really needs to know.

  4. redtory
    January 27, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Crime is an issue that’s woefully misunderstood, I’m afraid. But frankly, it doesn’t interest me in the least. I’m more fascinated by commercial and tort law.

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