| A fine article, but since the author singles out NPR and Wikipedia, I would just like to say a word in their defense. And then some other words. Thank God for Wikipedia, it is a miracle. Long may it stay antifragile! And long may NPR use its supporters' money to produce consistently archive-worthy content! Donations to Wikimedia foundation or your location public radio station make great "solstice" gifts, if you're into that sort of thing. So yeah, I just turned this comment into an ad, because let's not throw out the baby... And yes, I'm old enough to remember the "good old days." There is every bit as much signal now. And every bit as much more noise. And yes, Google's hegemony is a threat to the capital-I Internet's antifragility. (I just got Taleb's book, can you tell?) Guess who powers the analytics for crawshaw.io? It's all of a piece, people. Walk the talk. And yes, I have a little Shakespeare site that's "better" than the top-ranked ones in many ways, but I accept that if I wanted those top spots---like any other top spots---I would have to sweat and hustle and fight for them. I don't, and no contrarian anti-Google is going to hand them to me. I'm all for the better thing. Blue sky, every day! Step away from the machine! But c'mon, it's 2018, let's not dis NPR and Wikipedia! We're fighting the good fight! EDIT Also, to eksemplar's point that "The blog article about rejected Disney princesses is likely the most interesting piece anyone of us read on the internet today." I picked this piece at random and it was so amazing. I emailed it to my wife who's an artist. Man. Thanks for that alone, ye OP! https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/sarah-biffin |