Just read a really fantastic post on a topic close to our hearts here at MZ.
Drawar’s article comes from a very personal place in the growth of the ‘list-as-an-article’ trend (or ‘link-whoring’ as it’s sometimes known). It’s not just the design community afflicted by this though; news, sport and even comedy is increasingly becoming lists of links to other sites and minimal original content in the never-ending quest for higher traffic.
Then on the other side, syndicated content is more and more pervasive now and between social bookmarking, blogging, microblogging, social networks and everything else… these days, everyone’s a publisher. The democratisation of web-publishing is at once the greatest strength, and the greatest weakness, of the internet. Now everyone can have a voice but unfortunately not everyone has something worthwhile to say.
