Being a rant about - and to an extent a caricature of - some of the excesses of the Social Software movement...
The Excesses of Social Software: There's a post over at Matt Jones' site at the moment concerned with attempts to define and discuss social software [Defining Discussing 'Social Software'] and I find myself reacting to it in a completely unexpected way. Social software of one form or another has formed the core of most of the stuff I've worked and played with for the last several years, and I expected myself to find this resurgence of interest in these kinds of interactions fascinating and useful. But there's something about the abandonment of concepts of 'online community' and the complete rejection of familiar terms and paradigms like the message board that worries me. [more ...]
