+Kevin Kelly writes The Improbable is the New Normal ( via Farnam Street Blog ). I wonder about this, especially as it relates to news. What news do people read? How do they chose? Why do they go deeper into some stories and not others? In my experience: extraordinary is not the new ordinary. The Internet is not a lens that delivers the extraordinary as a focused beam. The Internet does not make us more expecting of the improbable. We will not have an insatiable appetite for the extraordinary. Individually, we somehow choose our illumination of the day. It could be an "ordinary" photo from a relative that we find cute, or it could be an "extraordinary" photo from The Big Picture that inspires feeling. It could be a local news story about crime that makes us think twice about whipping our smartphone out while waiting for the train, or it could be an international story about a mass shooting that makes us ponder the safety of our family and o...