Posted: February 19th, 2009 | Author: John | Tags: trend | No Comments »
Emerging criticism on what the author hopes will not be called postpostmodernism.
It strikes me as the apotheosis of a new category of critical discourse that, for better or worse, has been slowly congealing over the past few years via such various modalities as LOL cats, Vice magazine do’s and don’ts, flame wars, douchebaggery and douche bags as a widely recognized species, text messaging, sock puppeteering, YouTube karaoke, intensely and disturbingly self-referential video art, and so on.
via: PopMatters | Marginal Utility
Posted: February 19th, 2009 | Author: John | Tags: media, trend | No Comments »
Describing the trend toward specialized sites, one way to deal with the very real user experience problem of finding relevance in the information glut.
Whatever and whenever the next generation Web x.0 is labeled, it will have two defining traits. First, it will be more specialized. Second, it will be more editorialized. A large part of current behavior will continue. We’ll still use large, incumbent, generalist sites like Google and eBay. But at the same time, there will be a movement toward more specialized sites as we seek a better balance between authoritative, expert-endorsed content and broad, less bounded user-generated information.
via: HarvardBusiness.org
