Comments on: Modernism’s problem with social media http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/modernisms-problem-with-social-media/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Startup Today · Technology News RSS Feed - Web 2.0 News And Reviews http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/modernisms-problem-with-social-media/#comment-33488 Thu, 17 May 2007 08:09:01 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/modernisms-problem-with-social-media/#comment-33488 [...] But maybe, just maybe, mobs aren’t that bad. Terry Heaton had an insightful observation: “What I find most fascinating here is the automatic assumption that chaos is evil. This is a purely modernist perspective, but life itself proves it to be false.” He argues that the so-called Mob was more like the site at its finest…that a Mob is nothing more than democracy at high speed. I tend to agree with this. [...] […] But maybe, just maybe, mobs aren’t that bad. Terry Heaton had an insightful observation: “What I find most fascinating here is the automatic assumption that chaos is evil. This is a purely modernist perspective, but life itself proves it to be false.” He argues that the so-called Mob was more like the site at its finest…that a Mob is nothing more than democracy at high speed. I tend to agree with this. […]

]]> by: tish grier http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/modernisms-problem-with-social-media/#comment-31291 Tue, 08 May 2007 20:48:49 +0000 http://www.thepomoblog.com/archive/modernisms-problem-with-social-media/#comment-31291 Terry, Digg is a very bad measure of anything for the future. It's base is a very limited group of geeks who are self-referrential. Systems like Digg might acutally bring to fruition totalitarian states if they are given far too much authority before they are allowed to develop into more than just selective little niche-y realms for the rebellious. Terry,

Digg is a very bad measure of anything for the future. It’s base is a very limited group of geeks who are self-referrential. Systems like Digg might acutally bring to fruition totalitarian states if they are given far too much authority before they are allowed to develop into more than just selective little niche-y realms for the rebellious.

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