(Weblogs and) The Mass Amateurisation of (Nearly) Everything... (plasticbag.org)

this might be pertinent to that GP question, although I don't know the exact wording, just that it was about blogging and so forth. and this is really quite an engaging op-ed piece on how blogging (and by extension the movement towards web2.0) has made everything so easy that creativity nowadays comes pretty cheap.

which is really amusing when you think about it in terms of markets, lowering barriers to entry to a market with supernormal profit (is there supernormal profit in the internet?), increasing the supply, lowering the price-- yeesh. I'm inclined to agree with the author, damnit, Things Were Better when it was 2002 just before the big blog explosion. back then, we had no title fields, no del.icio.us, no tags, no comments, no shoutbox, and we had to walk for two days uphill through snow and a swamp just to post on blogger. hmph!