2013: The Year 'the Stream' Crested - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

"The idea of the stream has become so dominant that it is easy to think it is the natural state of things in a networked media environment. "Of course we have the stream: this is the Internet after all." That's why it's so important to look back at 2009 (just 2009!) and remember that the stream is a creation of particular companies and thinkers. Yes, they were following what worked, they were following the numbers. But they were also guided by their own desires and Brian Eno quotes and their guts. So, something else can be built, a new metaphor can take hold, and a different Internet could come into being. What might it look like? The most obvious thing would be the stream would remain, but other types of content would have greater power and attention." - I'll post about this sometime later today...