The suspicion that all this is élite anxiety in the face of a democratizing mediascape deepens when you consider what the attentionistas want people to focus on. Generally, it’s fine art, old books, or untrammelled nature—as if they were running a Connecticut boarding school. …
The web is mind-bogglingly massive. So massive, in fact, that it’s nearly impossibly to visualize its true scale. Even if your entire lifetime was spent perusing the web and searching every nook and cranny, you would never reach more than a miniscule fraction of the vast ocean of …
This is all done by a Quirky Personal Site Haver (really: don’t miss the main site!) but this subsite is more pointed at a lot of content you’ve surely come across before:
Slowly catching up on my RSS feed and I just read Dave's post “Why would anybody start a website?”. Obviously, Dave's post is right up my street but it reminded me of a random notes post on my phone that I wrote a while back.
