Bix dot Blog

I’d never seen Om Malik’s lament of “content” until he referenced it the other day, and it refreshed my memory of its gap regarding the spacetime between old-school blogging and social media. That is, the era of sites like Slashdot and Digg where upvoting and downvoting became a thing, and then became a thing to game. It’s the conceptual bridge between the dispersed, chattering blogosphere and the consolidated gamification of microblogging and status updates by Facebook and Twitter.