Quote of the week

Seth Goldstein:

Netscape browsed the Web. Yahoo! organized it. Google searched it. And now Facebook has made it social.

Right or wrong, it's an interesting characterization.

Plus, it implies myriad opportunities around each point -- browsing, organization, search and social community. Users can benefit through a richness of applications that solve problems in each of those areas. Clearly, the social area is the hot one right now.

Educational tides

"Surely this is exactly what an education institution should want – collaborative learning. They’re always banging on about the collaborative environment of a school, college or university, so why not accelerate this using the very technology that the students use anyway. The tide of web 2.0 use has flooded over the campus walls an it’s too late to stop it, so embrace it. There comes a point where bottom up becomes so compelling that it becomes the new top-down." Donald Clark

(via Edson)

Pop Culture, 2007

"When the tapestry of alienation becomes the status quo, disaffection merely becomes fashion."

-Klosterman, again Klosterman IV

Prog Rock

"In rock, 'progressive' doesn't mean writing about the future; it means writing about a past that never happened."

- Chuck Klosterman, Klosterman IV

Business, too

“When Picasso reworked Velazquez, Delacroix, and the other Old Masters, he seemed to be devouring them, appropriating and digesting for his own use their mysterious essence.”

-Calvin Tomkins