It's not a big truck

Quest may not have a big enough truck

While I find Chuck’s tirade amusing, it highlights only one potential perspective on sharing experiences on the internet. When it comes to sharing creative experiences, the creators of said experiences can and should have some input in just how their presence is conveyed. I remember a heated discussion on a King Crimson mailing list years ago about photographing/recording concerts. Robert Fripp tried to establish his possession that such things were evanescent by design, and that it cheapens them by capturing them in substandard recordings.

I don’t know exactly what I think about this, but I do know that simplistic appeal to mob behaviors doesn’t constitute a compelling argument that everything should be/is recorded and broadcast 24/7. I think that trivializes both communication and experience—the internet is not a big truck that we load our experiences onto so that we can share them.

July 21, 2008 5:33 PM