{"id":297,"date":"2007-03-20T20:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T01:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/20\/i-want-less-but-better\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T01:48:35","slug":"i-want-less-but-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/03\/20\/i-want-less-but-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I want less but better.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waldo <a href=\"http:\/\/waldo.jaquith.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/sterling-sxsw-talk\/\">points us<\/a> to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/59567\/Bruce-Sterlings-Talk-at-SXSW#1626072\">MeFi comment<\/a> that &#8211; I bet &#8211; really captures what those of us who&#8217;ve been kicking around the Internet for well over a decade are feeling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s funny how [Bruce Sterling] points out the need to find out what is good. I used to use mefi for this because the consensus used to be trustworthy. Now I feel like I am walking to into the smoking area of a seventies high school where their english teacher has just taught them the phrase &#8220;nihilistic existentialist&#8221; is the technical term for high school cool and everything must suck. Everything good now suffers up to 50353 pricks trying to out cool each other. I&#8217;m one of the pricks but I don&#8217;t want to be anymore. I want to hang out with the neat people. Where the hell do I find them? I know they&#8217;re here and I love their contributions but I am just getting so tired of wading through the &#8220;Metafilter: some one liner here&#8221;. I don&#8217;t have the time anymore to wade through all the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>I want less but better. Not less functionality and better design (sorry mr. jobs) . I want less information and better functionality. Or rather I want to have to wade through less information because of that better functionality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waldo points us to a MeFi comment that &#8211; I bet &#8211; really captures what those of us who&#8217;ve been kicking around the Internet for well over a decade are feeling: It&#8217;s funny how [Bruce Sterling] points out the need to find out what is good. I used to use mefi for this because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}