This, better than anything I’ve read to date, addresses the phenomenon of “Social Media”
“We’re collaborative animals, it turns out, and joyful amateurs, interested more in entertaining and informing ourselves than in being entertained and informed by professionals.”
It takes a couple of reads, but if you’re willing to slog through the word soup and get your knickers wet, there is a lot to find in Michael Wolff’s article in Vanity Fair, “Ringside at the Web Fight” What doesn’t make sense to my old brain when first read, gathers meaning, sometimes more than one, with review.
Very difficult to know where one fits in all of this, but it does mean that we’re swimming in a much bigger pond, that your words and thoughts are nested right there with everyone else’s, just as valuable and fraught with meaning (or not) as everyone else’s. If he’s right, there is some sorting out going to happen in the next few years. It seems that the internet ain’t over yet. I think, though, there’s place for photography in the mix.
Now for something completely off topic and totally cool. My friend Mike sent me this link: