Maybe it’s just late… and I am sick and tired of this cold Swedish winter… but there is something unsettling about all the recent talk about the EditThisPage community.
Yes, I love the energy of all these new sites, I love working with Manila – but why all this passion about yet another Hot List? Indeed, it is a kind of community: nice, professional americans in the web-business enjoying a peculiar lifestyle that may or may not be good news for the rest of the world.
Derek Powazek was on to something a few days ago: weblogging is just one possible way of using the web for personal expression. And it can be a very good way, too – unless it becomes a dogma. I think the world needs more people who edit what they write.
“Everyone’s rushing… and we have plenty of time” is a beatiful mantra for the year 2000.