What's good for business is a centralized standard format which makes it easy for consumers to browse without thinking.
What's good for the net is the opposite, which is the kind of decentralized it-just-routes-around system that the internet was designed to be in the first place.
To my chagrin, most of my clients, friends and family prefer the standardized and sanitized sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, *.google.com, Reddit and Digg.
I miss the anarchy days, when every site was a random gesture thrown up by someone possessed of the spirit of an idea or a plan, and not all websites were standardized web apps that are just too "perfect" to be fun, or to permit evolution.
What's good for the net is the opposite, which is the kind of decentralized it-just-routes-around system that the internet was designed to be in the first place.
To my chagrin, most of my clients, friends and family prefer the standardized and sanitized sites like Facebook, Wikipedia, *.google.com, Reddit and Digg.
I miss the anarchy days, when every site was a random gesture thrown up by someone possessed of the spirit of an idea or a plan, and not all websites were standardized web apps that are just too "perfect" to be fun, or to permit evolution.
/off my lawn