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07/01/08

Is there too much content on the internet?

Blogging and real life friend Son of a Fish from Epistles at Dawn (SOF) posted:

Yes, yes, there's a Funnyordie.com, Adultswim.com, Collegehumor, Break, Ebaumsworld, JibJab, Cleanguys.com (snicker), and good ol' YouTube, but is it just me, or have these sites lost their luster?...

...With sites like YouTube this is especially true, since the content is being created AND promoted by thousands of individuals. An increase in contributors, though, means that a number of people are posting content that is essentially garbage, with very little entertainment value. In addition, in order to produce massive amounts of content, the cost of the content must perforce go down. And with lower costs must come lower production values. From the perspective of these sites, this is an acceptable, even desirable equation. Push the content, maximize impressions, cash in...

...I'd say that we can all help by vetting ourselves. Don't post garbage on your blog. Don't watch pointless kick-in-the-balls videos or man-fall-down fare. In short, the only way we can force content providers to give us the funny is by ignoring the asinine...

And, to assure quality, Hollywood should just release one movie a month. I wouldn't have minded going strait from Iron Man in May to Wall-e in June without the intervening Happening.

I agree that most of the internet is garbage, but I also consider most music, poetry, television (Except for the CSIs which are all great and very dissimilar from each other.), novels, and performance art refuse as well.

Yet, this weekend, my wife brought home 10,000 B.C., a movie I curse once for each year it's setting is removed from our own. Well, she liked it. Add that to my father's enthusiasm for America's Funniest Home Videos and my mother's addiction to court shows and it's fair to conclude that some people, it seems, can't get enough punches to the privates or flushing cats. What can we do: send them to Australia?

The real reason that most content sucks is the same reason Boston and the Knack broke up, James Bond assaulted five secret lairs in six movies, nobody buys the Road Runner box set, and they canceled the Dukes of Hazard: People just run out of ideas. Only a few individuals in history like Mozart and Shakespeare can continuously top themselves.

Finally, I will never limit myself. Garbage or no, it's going on Asymmetric.

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