I was sure I had posted this, but logging in told me I had an unpublished draft. Whoops.
Weinberger argues that the internet and all of its content is miscellaneous mostly because we’re running out of ways to specifically classify everything. I say that the internet is specific because everything is so specifically classified. The internet is one big mess in your room that your parents claim they can’t even walk through for fear of being sucked in: it’s full of anything and everything and if you’re not careful you’ll step on two week old pizza, but amidst all of these things you know the order to your piles of clothing in descending order of cleanliness and which sandwich has only been sitting there since this afternoon and is still safe to eat. A bit less than a fifth of the world is online, roughly the entire population of the world in 1850. That’s a lot of minds to appeal to, yet everyone seems to find exactly what they’re looking for, why? The third order of things. The data about data that allows someone to Google purple monkey dishwasher and come up with 171,000 results in a matter of 0.18 seconds. Just because sites are boiled down to this minute category, it doesn’t make them miscellaneous, I think it may do the opposite and make them even more relevant for the few people that want to find their old t-shirt at the bottom of the third pile from the door.
