The Two Best Things on the Web 2010
Frank Chimero’s plea for structured, comprehensive surveys of academic fields is very convincing. One of my favorite things this year was listening to Michael Sandel’s Justice (available as a handy podcast) on the drives to and from work. It’s all stuff I read and learned about in college, but it’s nice to be newly grounded in it from a fresh perspective.
Anyways, to Frank:
Late last week I started drafting a list of my favorite things on the web from this year. After a review of the list, I realized most of it was droll, forgettable, ephemeral, and not really worth documenting in the grand scheme of things. Basically, it mattered at the time of its release, but time had not treated these things well: they were more flow than stock.
My top two choices, however, stood tall as perhaps the best stock I’ve had the pleasure of reading on the web, both in terms of their scope, but more interestingly about how they treated their content and audience. There’s a pattern here that I enjoy. I’d like to introduce you to them, and hopefully in the process make a bit of a point about the direction I want the web to take in the next year. I’m optimistic.
