eric rochow : social media handyman

OK, we’re back. Work is insane right now.

A well crafted thought from the NY Times, Dec 10th, 2006 Jon Pareles says:

User-generated content — turning the audience into the auteur — isn’t exactly an online innovation. It’s as old as ”America’s Funniest Home Videos,” or letters to the editor, or community sings, or Talmudic commentary, or graffiti. The difference is that in past eras most self-expression stayed close to home. Users generated traditional cultures and honed regional styles, concentrated by geographical isolation.

Gone are the geographical boundaries. Does that mean we are becoming homogenized?