Inter­est­ing fac­toids, like how many Amer­i­cans prac­tice yoga, spread like wild­fire across the Web and blo­gos­phere. But get­ting any per­spec­tive on those fac­toids can be much harder to find, and in some cases, impos­si­ble.

This morn­ing I uncov­ered a web-based infor­ma­tion vor­tex when I tried to find out how many Amer­i­cans cur­rently prac­tice yoga. I fell into a cir­cu­lar spi­ral, [Read more…]