On Web Culture

Great Blend was a lot of fun on Saturday. danah boyd (blog) on MySpace particularly but on the whole the evening was a bunch of highlights, a huge shout-out to Russell Brown, Karajoz and all the people involved. A great evening.

I missed when Danah mentioned it but found out later from DB about MyDeathSpace. Disturbing how some of these people end up dying. Eaten by an alligator? One girl died tragically when the bullet from a guy committing suicide went through his head and hit her in the chest. MyDeathSpace and Pro anorexia are my weird links for the week.

MySpace is a collection of ugly websites that play music before you can stop them and is also a fascinating social study. But it is nothing new, Geocities and Angelfire anyone? And maybe ‘web publishing’ is more accessible but that was always going to happen. The question I want to ask is how is money made? I know it’s advertising but I never click on those ads, maybe the MySpace population does? It just doesn’t seem consistent with how teenagers and young adults spend their money and what on. Maybe the Myspace advertising dollar is just about keeping your brand visible?

I thought I just had bad coffee on Saturday but in fact I was plain unwell. Which is always fun to blog about after reading MyDeathSpace “she blogged a dream in which she died…and then she died!” But all I have is virus. That can be cured by modern medicine.