2012-10-15
post/33629949691
quote 07:54:32
The social sites that arrived in the 2000s did not create the social web, but they did structure it. This is really, really significant.
Alexis C. Madrigal, in the Atlantic: Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong.
Perhaps this crystallises why I’m upset with the state of the internet at the moment: I’m following everyone else in looking at the corralled data stacks, not at the edges where, it seems, many people’s experience of the network still is.