The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Anderson & Wolff on a Post-Web/HTML World - Wired Magazine

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Excerpt:

Who’s to Blame:

Us

As much as we love the open, unfettered Web, we’re abandoning it for simpler, sleeker services that just work.

by Chris Anderson

You wake up and check your email on your bedside iPad — that’s one app. During breakfast you browse Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times — three more apps. On the way to the office, you listen to a podcast on your smartphone. Another app. At work, you scroll through RSS feeds in a reader and have Skype and IM conversations. More apps. At the end of the day, you come home, make dinner while listening to Pandora, play some games on Xbox Live, and watch a movie on Netflix’s streaming service.

You’ve spent the day on the Internet — but not on the Web. And you are not alone.

Read more: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/

'Visual poem inspired by Nietszche' yikes! ominous: TIFF 2010 Short Films - Adder's Bite - Grzie @Liveforfilms

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No Safe Sex Here! Trueblood redefining how we think about blood & sex: The Joy of Vampire Sex: Rolling Stone Cover

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Obviously, Trueblood's conception of VJ is a lot more complicated in terms of the show's depiction of a 'blood contagion' that divides Americans between the religious right & pro-Vamp supporters & the complications of relationships cross-species. Is it going to far to think about the hotter than hot sex with vampires, hetero & homo, as a reaction against Safe Sex/HIV anxiety? Seems to be a striking shift away from other 'contagion' stories