Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace
This succinctly explains why MySpace has become a phenomenon, even with a crappy design. It also explains why all the tags, AJAX, RSS, and web standards in the world won’t save the deluge of new single-service startups coming on the scene.
Each site wants my contribution, but none give me a “home.” Flickr lets me post pictures, but not podcast. Epinions lets me review a CD, but not blog.
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