The Web’s Wide Orbit
“What the Web has lacked in its determination to turn itself into a full-fledged media format […] is anybody who knew anything about media. Likewise, on the media side, there wasn’t anybody who knew anything about technology.” The challenge of producing “content” of actual value on the Web or on Internet-based applications—the articulation of ideas in a form particular to that expression and its reception—still has everything to do with inhabiting both of those seemingly divergent worlds, and with determining which pre-Internet metaphors remain viable and which are needless constraints.”
An excerpt from the aforementioned Annotation, The Web’s Wide Orbit, posted recently to Triple Canopy. (Scroll, and note that my super-sleuth eyes did catch the NB that announces an imminent re-design of the site. Joy.)
