amid a crowd of stars

Flash without the plug-in…

http://smokescreen.us/

Here’s an idea for a cartoon… comparing on one hand, a web content management system and on the other a web discontent management system.

I recently read Andrew Kean’s book, “The Cult of the Amateur,” and though I found it engaging and even possibly important inasmuch as it vigorously counters the notions of the digital utopians’ who gush that the web “changes everything,” I would say that his position is probably not all that defensible. But then, it may not need to be defended, because I would guess that if the army of amateurs, as he calls them, ever bothers to glance up from their machines to note the book, their appetite for the ever-new will soon draw them back to their online quests.

And so, as a group of school children might stop to investigate, torment and perhaps even kill an unfortunate bug, so it is with the cult as Kean describes them. They may stop, snuffle about, write a few incendiary blog posts, but
soon enough… they’ll move on.

… and perhaps that is as it should be.

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