Pylimitics

Ben Thompson, whose site Stratechery is interesting, well-written, and afflicted with tunnel vision about “the web” being collection of business deals, just posted this: The original web that we know and love was the human web; that’s why advertising was the preferred business model, and Google was the big winner.

Nonsense. I can’t tell whether he means personal communication when he says “human web,” or if he’s just so blindered that he really doesn’t get it that the “original web” wasn’t about business models at all. The “preferred” business model wasn’t advertising, it was nothing. The original web, which is still around, is about creative, individual expression. The business model stuff is just the halfwitted idea of the greedheads who were unable to conceive of something creative, quirky, authorial, artistic, and unrelated to greedheads amassing cash, which is the only idea their feeble imaginations can grasp..