Tribalism Archives

Free to be. You and me. Versus them.

Oh Tribalism!

More and more people are talking about how society is becoming increasingly tribal in character. Instead of broad common values and common media types uniting us, we are splintered into smaller, more specialized groups often distributed geographically and connected only by virtual web-based or incidental communities. Comic lovers and trekkies unite at conventions. [...]

Clicks and Cliques

It seems to me that google is in a weird way the old high school popularity contest recreated on its head. By privileging sites with a great number of inbound links, it makes certain popular sites rise to the top of the pile. While this may produce relevance, a worthy goal, it may [...]