Tomorrow Museum
takes up the issue of BoingBoing
deleting posts from people who are marginally critical of the site. It
happened to me a few months ago too, seemingly because I wrote
this, more as a disappointed fan than a disgruntled rage machine. It's a nasty moment online right now, where a lot of people are trying to figure out how to write critically about internet society and its participants while not joining the throng of noisy hatah culture. BoingBoing's tactics suggest they are on the wrong side of this debate.
Now if only they'd remove any trace of John Brownlee from BB Gadgets...
I was actually really looking forward to your conjectured Boing Boing takedown, because I figured you'd probably avoid the usual complaints--Cory's ranting, Xeni's Xeniness--and focus instead on the issue that bugs me most about Boing Boing: what you defined in your earlier post as circa-1991 post-hipness.
Boing Boing preaches a certain kind of old-fashioned futurism that just seems incredibly dated. Every time I go to the site I feel like I just had a conversation with a 35-year-old grad student in a bowling shirt who was trying to tell me about how wacky the Church Of The Subgenius is...
I bet BoingBoing linked you for ten minutes, then realized you're running coldfusion, and did the honorable thing by taking down the link before they took down your server. :)
I have a total side question for you, Rex.
Beyond the anger out there on the web, where are people going now?
Twitter is apparently starting to feel abandoned according to users. Myspace and facebook are down people. Blogs are disappearing.
Where is everyone going? To real life?
God, I hope not. The L Train is already too crowded.
Even split between, WoW, Webkins, GTA4, and doing Ironic's mom.
heh.
I didn't realize, Paul, that there are so many necrophiliacs out there....