Watch What I Do not What I Say

According to Cory at craphound.com information overload is solved through trusting redundancy. However Nicole at TechRepublic.com believes that thorough a moderation of our use of these avenues associated with information overload can help us cope with the growing amount of barraging information( do you ever take a break form technology?). I notice the first article keeps a very loose tone, quite conversational, and includes a lot of personal examples.  He begins the article by mentioning all the information was from an article he wrote for a newspaper, obviously appealing to the readers ethos so we will trust what he has to say. Personal examples can reinforce this by helping the reader identify with him and begin to trust his way of thinking. Nicoles article shares this attribute. Her tone is more professional and more restrained but she is also appealing to the readers sense of ethos but in a different way. In her article uses a book about building a good life in the digital age and she references the author and substantiates with quotes to build report with the reader. In this way the author of the book is not providing fact merely a observation relateable to a mass, meaning that she is going to seem more believable because shes not the only one thinking this way.  I would say then that albeit devoid of any real useful information Corys article effectively communicates his rhetorical message of "chill out its all redundant info" by maintaining a chill manner towards research and tone.  On the other hand Nicoles article full of quotes and paraphrases  conveys adequately that we should approach this medium with moderation just like anything else.