[thelist] article on web surfing trends
travis forden
travis at treevis.com
Mon Aug 27 08:36:21 CDT 2001
the international herald tribune has a feature article by amy harmon on how
web surfers stick to tried and true sites.
http://www.iht.com/articles/30515.html
some good points are made, but i wish articles like this would consider how
many people never change default settings on browsers and how these large
media companies have content for nearly every subject (because they gobble
up the failed dot coms and others - to which the author alludes but she
changes the subject shortly thereafter). it be nice, too, to look at how
the failure of so many dot coms impacts people's opinion of the web. i'm
probably going to lose $50 at flooz.com because they're probably going
bankrupt. it definitely throws up a red flag about how safe it is to give
your money and personal information to sites that could potentially fail.
but then again, i also think this trend has a lot to do with how so many
americans just can't stand to live without homogeneity.
travis
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