Memografía

I would much, much prefer an internet the way it was going ten years ago: an internet filled with people who have blogs, who have little sites of their own, who have different places that are connected and linked together that they’ve built, places over which they have all control, all agency, places for which they’re responsible. That’s still a fine dream, I think. Facebook has effectively killed it, because people don’t want the hassle of creating their own thing anymore. —

The Facebook thread at MetaFilter has inspired some great comments. This one by koeselitz (partially quoted here) is particularly interesting.

I love the idea of blogs but lately they are a medium dominated by SEO “experts”  who just want to monetize them so obviously people don’t see them as something fun to try, sticking with Facebook or twitter.