Serendipity Effect
Definition:
''The gift of making delightful discoveries by pure accident''. In hypertext navigation, the original goal sometimes becomes irrelevant or is forgotten over the current dominance of a new piece of information encountered in the browsing process. This is called the serendipity effect.
My conspirators in crime:
''The gift of making delightful discoveries by pure accident''. In hypertext navigation, the original goal sometimes becomes irrelevant or is forgotten over the current dominance of a new piece of information encountered in the browsing process. This is called the serendipity effect.
My conspirators in crime:
- http://boingboing.net/
- http://slashdot.org/
- http://www.google.ca + random typing of words and phrases
- TV (The Hour, and other CBC shows)
- Newspapers (The Toronto Star)
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