Which direction would you prefer us to move in? Away from user-generated content? From a social internet where the consumers are also the creators? Towards a monopolistic internet where content is strictly controlled by the technical elite, who alone possess the knowledge and the tools required?
I'm confused as to why you would say such a thing.
Away from buzzwords and business models, and back towards the smaller, more personal internet dedicated to people's interests without the lingering scent of money all over everything.
Re: ExamplifymotionblurrMarch 8 2007, 21:52:53 UTC
Lingering scent of money? Personal internet dedicated to people's interests?
What do you call MySpace, Facebook, Livejournal, Blogger, YouTube, Last.fm, Friendster, etc...? Web2.0 is all about personal internet. Sure, the creation of the sites is motivated by profit margins, but that's the way of things. Hate to break it to you, but it takes money to motivate humanity to band together to create anything. Either money or hate.
I'd much rather have a slick site like Livejournal (which, might I add, has no advertisements in its basic form) than the shitty Geocities sites of the mid-90s.
Sounds to me like you're saying that you want the old technocratic internet back. You'd rather the 'net denizens limited to those with significantly above-average technical skills. That's elitism, my friend.
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Away from user-generated content? From a social internet
where the consumers are also the creators?
Towards a monopolistic internet where content is strictly
controlled by the technical elite, who alone possess the
knowledge and the tools required?
I'm confused as to why you would say such a thing.
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Personal internet dedicated to people's interests?
What do you call MySpace, Facebook, Livejournal, Blogger,
YouTube, Last.fm, Friendster, etc...?
Web2.0 is all about personal internet.
Sure, the creation of the sites is motivated by profit
margins, but that's the way of things.
Hate to break it to you, but it takes money to motivate humanity
to band together to create anything. Either money or hate.
I'd much rather have a slick site like Livejournal (which, might
I add, has no advertisements in its basic form) than the shitty
Geocities sites of the mid-90s.
Sounds to me like you're saying that you want the old technocratic
internet back. You'd rather the 'net denizens limited to those with
significantly above-average technical skills.
That's elitism, my friend.
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