I love this piece from Robin Sloan on the potential virtues of more bespoke/artisanal web content at a place like Gawker Media. Couldn’t agree more – almost a decade in, the saddest thing about blogging is the ratio of words to imagery that free personal publishing has delivered to date.

This is one reason why I really like what’s been done with the Cheezburger Network, especially with GraphJam. It’s not the Jason Santa Maria-level “oh wow” work that Robin alludes to, but it’s at least encouraging people to express ideas using visual and verbal language.

If the going rate for years before the internet was 1,000 words, how far has that figure inflated in a post-Google, trillions of bits and bytes society?