The Medium: The Web=City; Pricey Apps=The Suburbs
Virginia Heffernan, one of the best writers around, cleverly dissects the evolution of, and efforts to tame, the teeming city that is the Internet. A sampling:
“The Web is a teeming commercial city. It’s haphazardly planned. Its public spaces are mobbed, and signs of urban decay abound in broken links and abandoned projects. Malware and spam have turned living conditions in many quarters unsafe and unsanitary. Bullies and hucksters roam the streets. An entrenched population of rowdy, polyglot rabble seems to dominate major sites.”
Read on about the “way out, an orderly suburb that lets you sample the Web’s opportunities without having to mix with the riffraff. “
(Photo credit: Kevin Van Aelst, NYT.)