Denrael

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“This strategy appears to be in full effect with the latest crop of photo-sharing applications who, I think, are confusing their perfectly reasonable desire not to deal with the drudgery of storing lots of files with the idea that transience is some kind of world view. And that’s what bugs me.

The value of the web is in its history. The value of the web is that it grows over time and that it spiders out making connections, just as often doubling back on itself to find previously unseen patterns and connections. It is not a linear progression through time and space always discarding the near past. Or if it is then I’m sorry for wasting everyone’s time because that sounds about as exciting, and about as valuable, as any given season of canned television programming.”

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