[thelist] article on web surfing trends

[travis forden]

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