(2006-01-05) Difilippo Blogger Crash

Paul Di Filippo on a future WebLog Attention Economy crash and its effects on Cory Doctorow. I had to run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go. What if I ran into bloggers? Ever since the total, irretrievable collapse of the Internet in a chaos of viruses, worms, spam, terrorism and busts by the FBI anti-porn squad, that archaic species of human had become a bigger street menace than mimes, Jehovah's Witnesses, or panhandlers ever were.