Re: Weekly Webpage Workshop #3

-- Paul Kruczynski / http://kruczyn.ski/ Bradley Gannon wrote on 12/18/19 7:34 AM: > Dear ~club: > > I don't have any sense of how much you all participated in last week's > workshop, since I couldn't think of a neat little command to run to scan > /home/ for wikis. As far as I can tell, there wasn't much interest, so > perhaps I'll try to a different sort of prompt this week. > > Do you remember MySpace? Me neither. I happen to be young enough to have > more or less missed the rise of MySpace and instead been tempted by > somewhat early Facebook circa 2007. (That's another story.) > > Based on echos in preserved popular culture from the period and other > forms of archaeology, I have concluded that there was once a way for > MySpace users to define an in-group on their page known as the Top 8. > Apparently, the decisions surrounding who was in a person's Top 8 and > who wasn't were serious ones with long-lasting social consequences, at > least for some. Of course, this is a ridiculous idea to us evolved > humans of the almost 2020s. We would never be dragged down into > arguments with strangers on the Internet over essentially meaningless > tribal drivel, right? ...right? > > ~club, your task this week is to recreate MySpace's Top 8 somewhere on > your own set of pages. Just one catch: no people. To try to avoid > recreating the apparent angst that comes with publicly defining > in-groups and out-groups, let's pick instead from the vast selection of > topics, languages (natural and artificial), technologies, forms and > genres of music, and other inanimate stuff of interest. This way, we > might avoid the toxicity and end up sharing our interests with each > other instead. > > Have fun, ~club, and I'm sorry this one was a little late. > > Bradley >