Checking some of the (video) content over on myspace and one thing that strikes me: it's all garbage. I thought that blogging was pretty bad (on average) where people dump the random things that happened to them that day, but to allow video? Oie.
The more access people have to publishing content, the more content, but the ratio of quality content can't seem to keep up. It's really quite amazing really.
I'm pretty lazy. My time is important to me. I love content that's been filtered by others like comments on /.. Places that don't have filtered content like the dilbert blog, I don't even bother to skim. I wonder how long till everything is connected, everything is rated. Instead of "street cred", people will have "web cred". Maybe it will be relative web cred so that my friends opinions will be worth more to me (as web cred) than similar people have half way around the world... oie. I am sure that someone else has thought long and hard about this and have written sci-fi stories or a thesis about it. Either way, it's time for me to stop my current brain dump.
Street Cred/Web Cred <-> Apples/Oranges
ReplyDeleteIt all comes out to the old saying, that 99% of everything is crap. 99% of music is crap, 99% of books are crap, 99% of MySpace journals are crap, and 99% of the entire internet is crap. I don't see how this really comes as any surprise. It was the same thing 10 years ago, when everyone was on geocities. 99% of it was crap. The people putting it up thought it was the bomb, and that everyone would want to see it. Even, this post is crap, so i'll stop typing now.
ReplyDeleteI think that if the quality would be brought up to be 99% crap, that would be a HUGE improvement. I think that at this point it's somewhere around 5 nines on places like myspace.
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