Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Mac on the WWW


"There's so much weird stuff on the Net that it can -
and has - made people quite nuts. Rest assured, 99%
of it is pure drek. Excepting PHB, of course;
everything I say is true."

- Mac Tonnies, 4/23/06

With most interactivity on the net having moved over to Twitter and (cringe) Facebook, I have to wonder if Mac - had he lived - would've even bothered maintaining Posthuman Blues.

2 comments:

  1. This is an interesting question. The issue with Facebook (ouch!) and Twitter is that it's rather restricted to the spontaneous expository with no real substance of site. A blog, on the other hand, has weight - an existence of procession with history that may be browsed at one's leisure.

    Not having known Mac, I'd have hoped he would have continued to maintain Posthuman Blues as a work in progress.

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  2. Oh, I don't know, BG... We hail from a generation for which talk was not as cheap. I know Mac secretly despaired at the direction the internet was going... with most intellectual discourse getting left in the dust as readers headed for the fast lane.

    No, I think faced with the present "0 Comment" flagged blog wasteland currently in view, Mac would've gradually eased off blogging - and I think he already was doing so in 2009 - and concentrated more on his writing. Which would have been a good thing - he had a lot to offer.

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