Nevermind the retarded overflated price-tag on Youtube and the fact that most people are waking up to the fact that Web 2.0 = Bubble 2.0
But the central institution of Bubble 2.0 is really being defaced. I think we can officially stamp it a failure now. Why? Because, despite the theoretically limitless space that is the internet, Wikipedia editors have decided to have a witchhunt to remove content that's not "relevant enough". Good, you'd say, except that the whole point of Wikipedia was that something was relevant the moment someone would search for it, and that any informational value attached to Dostoevsky over South Park is an arbitrary one. If that central philosophy is dropped, the only thing that seperates Wikipedia from a general encyclopedia (apart from its being free) is that it's bigger and easier to vandalize.
Some of the riot centers around webcomics...for instance, the removal of the fairly popular (and fairly shitty) webcomic Evil Inc. But this guy said it best:
Okay, I saw this one coming a mile away.
There has been much written about Wikipedia lately, especially it's treatment of webcomics. And while it all seems rather arbitrary, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I do feel bad for the people who put the time and effort into making the page in the first place. It seems that as Wikipedia gets more users among the general public, it's become a bit of a laughing stock among the more web savvy who were there before it came along. And don't email me in protest. It's just true.
The funny thing is that we all started putting our content on the internet because there were no editors to tell us we didn't measure up, weren't good enough, etc. And out of that freedom came some damn fine comics and other forms of entertainment that nobody would have seen otherwise if not for the web. So along comes Wikipedia and it's "anyone can edit" philosophy and here comes the editors. Which can be a good thing when positive people out there seek to expand the available info, but in the end, a bad thing because of the negative ones who see their purpose as narrowing the scope of the internet.
They'll find you, man, those editors.
Web 2.0 becomes Bubble 2.0 becomes Flop 2.0
Yay progression! Bubble 2.0 fails much in the same way communism fails, lack of taking the fact that humans are involved into account
But the central institution of Bubble 2.0 is really being defaced. I think we can officially stamp it a failure now. Why? Because, despite the theoretically limitless space that is the internet, Wikipedia editors have decided to have a witchhunt to remove content that's not "relevant enough". Good, you'd say, except that the whole point of Wikipedia was that something was relevant the moment someone would search for it, and that any informational value attached to Dostoevsky over South Park is an arbitrary one. If that central philosophy is dropped, the only thing that seperates Wikipedia from a general encyclopedia (apart from its being free) is that it's bigger and easier to vandalize.
Some of the riot centers around webcomics...for instance, the removal of the fairly popular (and fairly shitty) webcomic Evil Inc. But this guy said it best:
Okay, I saw this one coming a mile away.
There has been much written about Wikipedia lately, especially it's treatment of webcomics. And while it all seems rather arbitrary, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I do feel bad for the people who put the time and effort into making the page in the first place. It seems that as Wikipedia gets more users among the general public, it's become a bit of a laughing stock among the more web savvy who were there before it came along. And don't email me in protest. It's just true.
The funny thing is that we all started putting our content on the internet because there were no editors to tell us we didn't measure up, weren't good enough, etc. And out of that freedom came some damn fine comics and other forms of entertainment that nobody would have seen otherwise if not for the web. So along comes Wikipedia and it's "anyone can edit" philosophy and here comes the editors. Which can be a good thing when positive people out there seek to expand the available info, but in the end, a bad thing because of the negative ones who see their purpose as narrowing the scope of the internet.
They'll find you, man, those editors.
Web 2.0 becomes Bubble 2.0 becomes Flop 2.0
Yay progression! Bubble 2.0 fails much in the same way communism fails, lack of taking the fact that humans are involved into account
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