Comments on: Is Stoooooopidity Going to be Gooooooogle’s Legacy?

By: Terrell

Terrell — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:50:20 +0000

So, did anyone else stumble on this blog the way I did.

There just happens to be a http://www.gooooooogle.com/
I am pretty sure it is owned, operated, and maintained by Google. I did a search on a random word (just happened to be “fear”) and this website was on the first page of the results. . . I find that slightly strange.

By: AndreSC

AndreSC — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:08:17 +0000

Hmmm, ‘fully optemised’?… never. :-)

‘eloquence, penetration and understanding are being replaced with poorly crafted user generated content of zero veracity’ sounds a bit like a kneejerk reaction to the changing landscape - although an easy one to make these days.

Eloquence, penetration and understanding are still around, and arguable more so than ever before, be it in a new distributed and more fluid state.

Structures that don’t change are dead.

Remembering where we came from is kewl, especially if it helps to formulate and contextualize the vision of where we are going.

As for the mass of noise that is UGC, ask yourself what would you rather have, a two litre capacity goldfish bowl with a single pretty fish or the whole damn ocean?

By: Shane Smith

Shane Smith — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:47:29 +0000

Thanks for the feedback guys :)
Two Jacobs’, nice! Though Gordon, I’m afraid I don’t recall your aquaintance?
Check out this one - Brighton Professor says that Google is white bread for young minds // http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3182091.ece

Do note that -
I am not attacking the principles of open source (that would be silly, regarding my purpose of writing) so much as throwing out a plea to remember where we came from.
I am not projecting my general apathies on humanity upon you so much as my concern for the re-structuring of the heirachy that was and is no longer. The very fact that I, an unqualified brat, have the same floor for speech as respectables is a testament to this.
Enjoy your week :)

By: Gordon Jacobs

Gordon Jacobs — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:25:28 +0000

Hey Shane, don’t know if you remember me?
What a coincidence to see you posting here! Grand article, good sir.
I gotta say that I agree with your ideas above. The collective unconscious is all very well, but you’ll find that the new age individual is useless without it. Kids are not the only ones with ADD these days, but most of us. I have to say that I also failed your ‘test’ by not reading the article through properly (which would have only taken like…two minutes perhaps?).

Keep up that good writing :)