Re:Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played...
by cwe on Friday September 02, 2011 @06:26PM
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This whole trope about creation vs consumption is pointing fingers in the wrong direction: why blame the iPad, when a lot of the creativity is going into tweets and likes? You mention 3 older social networks as being some kind of revolution, well, what about FB, twitter, G+, etc? We are all consuming each others creations, so the whole centralized authority bit is overblown.
That's not to rip on social tools, or the iPad. Just pointing out that your global conversation has evolved, not died.
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Re:Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played...
by joebadmo on Friday September 02, 2011 @06:57PM
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I think the iPad is one vector. I think the social networks you mention are another. That also feels to me like a closing down, or a narrowing. I think Facebook, to take the biggest example, restricts and narrows and makes shallow our communication.[0] It reduces our interactions to shallow, superficial comments, likes, low-fidelity photos, etc. In its way, I think the move toward closed social networks is also a step backward from the open exchange of ideas that blogging represented. And I think this is partially due to the tools we've made, too.
[0]: I wrote more on that here: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/3112676038/the-end-of-comment... which was a response to an essay by Zadie Smith.[1]
[1]:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generat...