GENOMICON

So yea… there are loads of people all over the place who are all “oooh and aaah”, “it’s going to be great. Everyone’s going to be able to design and build their own stuff”.

I’m not sure what they have in mind exactly… everyone adhering to web standards? That this utterly unprecedented explosion in human expressive capability is somehow going to translate into creative capability?

Maybe (and here’s a nasty thought) the people with enough talent to make anything that isn’t a horrifying aesthetic atrocity already are. Maybe The Long Tail isn’t long and thin because of a niche thing, but rather a quality thing.

Maybe the 20% (or whatever it is) of people who are capable of making things that “could be in a shop”…

… are balanced out by a similar number of people who are capable of making things that are frighteningly dangerous and appalling?

Just a thought like.

Anyway, there’s this website that’s turned up called http://thereifixedit.com with lots of brilliant examples of Favela Chic gone wrong. It’s like MySpace Leakage without the glitter.

Brilliant