"I Killed the Internet"
Sort of a drive-by post here, and not any of the posts I actually wanted to be writing. But this essay about the effects of our cultural move from browsing an open Internet for information and connections to the use of proprietary networks like Facebook, and of apps rather than browsers, is worth all the buzz it's been getting.
It's easy for me to say that, since I've had something of a knee-jerk reaction against the trends the author is talking about here: I won't use Facebook in part because I don't like walled gardens, and I've never seen the point of a lot of the apps that are available. But even if his suggestions required me to move in directions I didn't find intuitive, I think I'd try to follow them anyway. What he's saying makes sense to me, and if he's right, this is actually pretty important.
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It's easy for me to say that, since I've had something of a knee-jerk reaction against the trends the author is talking about here: I won't use Facebook in part because I don't like walled gardens, and I've never seen the point of a lot of the apps that are available. But even if his suggestions required me to move in directions I didn't find intuitive, I think I'd try to follow them anyway. What he's saying makes sense to me, and if he's right, this is actually pretty important.
This entry was crossposted from Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there, with openID or whatever works for you.