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Interesting to see a New Yorker's view of SF, but why do we care? Who is Zed Shaw and why is he important?
by bcl 17y ago
Interesting to see a New Yorker's view of SF, but why do we care? Who is Zed Shaw and why is he important?
- yan 17y agoI'm reminded about something I read regarding human interaction in general: "It's not who has the most interesting to say that's most popular, it's who's the loudest."
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- icey 17y agoMongrel, "Rails is a Ghetto", Lamson; in that order.
- derefr 17y agoYou know Cheers—"where everybody knows your name" and all that? The Internet is like that, for some people: a third place[1], a place that people want to feel sociable and at home at the same time. Celebrities are the plague of third places; because people rarely actually know the people they meet in a standard third place (unlike Cheers), certain people—the celebrities of the individual third place—are gravitated toward as topics of conversation, because they are "safe" topics of conversation that most people there are sure to have something to say. Beauty parlors have magazine-cover celebrities; we have ranting-douche celebrities. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Place