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If The Great Movies had been WebsitesNobody loves the Web more than we do. But we're not blind to its shortcomings. IPO Fever. Browser incompatibilities. Horrific design on a global scale.
But that's not the worst of it.
The worst of it is the pathetic scarcity of meaningful content.
And what do many Web creators substitute for content? Diary entries.
We'll admit we've seen a few sites that raise this kind of narcissism to an art form. But these great personal storytelling sites are the rare exceptions. For the most part, we get dull personal commentary with a side order of self-importance.
Here we have the most democratic publishing medium ever invented, and what do people fill it with? The meaningless daily details of their lives.
What if every potentially great new medium had been filled with "content" like this? What if, instead of actually MAKING Citizen Kane, Orson Welles had simply published a Web diary?
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