Well - he has a point!<p>But everybody has to be able to handle addiction and everybody has to build his/her own crap filters.<p>We do this more or less successfully with alcohol and TV. Why shouldn't we be able to deal with internet too in the right way?<p>I propose the author of internets####.org may start a software to distinguish quality from crap in the net. Something where everybody can define his own crapfilters, like with spam.<p>I'll buy it instantly.
Of course there's a world out there beyond the internet, but before the internet it was a lot less likely you'd ever really know what you were missing. Sure, you might know the great diner around the block, but would miss out on the other dozen great ones within a couple of miles that you could have found on yelp.<p>It's an interesting essay but rather excessively pessimistic I think.<p><i>I have of late--but<p>wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all<p>custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily<p>with my disposition that this goodly frame, the<p>internet, seems a filthy promontory, this most<p>excellent filigree, the web, look you, this brave<p>e'erchanging firmament, this majestical net fretted<p>with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to<p>me than a foul and pestilent congregation of feces.<p>What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!<p>how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how<p>express and admirable! in action how like an angel!<p>in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the<p>world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,<p>what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not<p>me</i>
The real quote, with emphasis added:<p>> the internet itself, in <i>almost</i> all of what's been done with it, is shit.<p>This is simply a restatement of Sturgeon's law.
Well there’s a point here, as all human invention we are far from mastering the use of the internet, we’re still grappling with it. Does it make it shit? Don’t think so, what we do with it define its role in our lives and society. Advocacy of better usage will be much helpful, instead of internetisshit.com maybe makingthebestoftheinternet.com a bit longer name, mail it to friends they wont notice it : - )
Not really that interesting. The Internet is just a means for people to communicate faster. If most of it is shit it's because most of what people talk with each other is shit. While I think that got to be changed, I don't blame Internet for that.
I disagree with what he said, but honestly, he got me flipping through all his 11 pages, that is quite something.<p>One, he's got style, I have never seen a page so simple that it becomes intriguing. Two, he wants to go beyond Google, isn't this what we all want?