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“If urban history can be applied to virtual space and the evolution of the Web, the unruly and twisted message boards are Jane Jacobs. They were built for people, and without much regard to profit. How else do you get crowds of not especially lucrative demographics like flashlight buffs (candlepowerforums.com), feminists (bust.com) and jazz aficionados (forums.allaboutjazz.com)? By contrast, the Web 2.0 juggernauts like Facebook and YouTube are driven by metrics and supported by ads and data mining. They’re networks, and super-fast — but not communities, which are inefficient, emotive and comfortable. Facebook — with its clean lines and social expressways — is Robert Moses par excellence.”
Best internet metaphor ever
The Old Internet Neighborhoods by Virginia Heffernan, Sunday 10th July, NYTimes.
Posted on July 11, 2011 with 24 notes ()
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What a beautiful metaphor — Robert Moses= facebook, Jane Jacobs = BBS! The...theorist geek...
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Geocities literally used to have “neighborhoods” where people could put sites based on their topics.
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screwrocknroll reblogged this from tomewing and added:
Agreed. Nice article, and it should be no surprise to discover I enjoy a good city metaphor. On that: Jane Jacobs wrote...
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I liked this article. I was writing a training module today...threw in a slide on “the...
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