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April 16, 2005
Maturity sucks
Inevitably all technology matures, but that doesn't always mean that it improves. For instance, gopher was a perfectly good way of finding documents easily, and it had no problems with spyware, cookies, and the other maladies that infect today's WWW. E-mail used to be simple text and spam was almost unheard of. Napster 2.0 had all the songs I needed but has been supplanted by the fancier ITunes that still won't let me download my favorite French pop songs.
Now blogging is growing up. Recently my favorite blog, Powerline, recreated its site, added ads, and eliminated trackbacks. Worst of all, the lawyers who write it have eliminated their nicknames: Deacon, The Big Trunk, and Hindrocket. Frankly, I'd much rather read the writings of a mysterious owl named "Deacon" than a boring "Paul Mirengoff." It's understandable: Paul, Scott, and John deserve to benefit from the name recongition that their 40,000 daily visitors earn them. Still, give me the fun old days of Deacon, Trunk, and Rocketman.
Posted by adrianjo at April 16, 2005 07:54 PM
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