Douglas Purdy

Scoble has a great post about swimming in the noise.

If I wanted to be pedantic, I may take some issue with his use of the term noise (see A Mathematical Theory of Communication), but I know what he means.

That said, his story of the party reminded me of how CDMA works in practice using Walsh codes.

They [noise junkies] are the types that head into a crowded party and listen to pitch after pitch (noise) and drunken story after drunken story (noise) to find something that their audiences will find interesting (news).  

I have several sources of “noise” that I love to surf (which people who are part of my Interesting Times Gang know), but my current favorite is not Twitter or FriendFeed (I love both, BTW), but Google Hot Trends feed.

There is a ton of noise there (and much of it could lend credence to some of the worst things being said about today’s society), but I find some interesting information encoded in there from time to time.