emma rocks

"People who find the Web distasteful — ugly, uncivilized — have nonetheless been forced to live there: it’s the place to go for jobs, resources, services, social life, the future. But now, with the purchase of an iPhone or an iPad, there’s a way out, an orderly suburb that lets you sample the Web’s opportunities without having to mix with the riffraff. This suburb is defined by apps from the glittering App Store: neat, cute homes far from the Web city center, out in pristine Applecrest Estates. In the migration of dissenters from the “open” Web to pricey and secluded apps, we’re witnessing urban decentralization, suburbanization and the online equivalent of white flight."

Mind blown.  What a crazy, and what I think accurate, thought.

Virginia Heffernan (via soupsoup)

(via katykelley) (via mikehudack

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ooo. Yeah. Dead on. This, by the way, is what I think Steve meant by “Freedom from porn.” Maybe not the porn you want, but that it’s not gonna pop up all the damn time even when you don’t want it, and you’ll be able to keep your kids from it.

(via rickwebb)

When does porn pop up unexpectedly anymore? I only see accidental internet porn in google searches for beavers or bunnies. Or maybe a banner ad for American Apparel on pitchfork.com or something. But those things are all quite as available on an ipad or iphone, so I’m not entirely sure if our “suburban” internet is really any practically different than our “urban” internet.

Unless Jobs is coming up with his own Apple-approved-websites-only search engine, this whole “freedom from porn” thing is bullshit. Fuck he probably is. And we’re all going to have to submit our sites and wait months and months to get approved. Maybe we could accelerate that process with a little bribery. So much for net neutrality.  (Disclaimer: I’m still bitter that Yahoo never accepted my awesome X-Files Fan Art website into it’s search engine. In 1998. F U Yahoo.)