Taiwan, Get Your Ass Home For Dinner
September 27th, 2009
The internet is like a giant compost heap — constantly absorbing new bits and pieces and growing them into something new.
Boasting some 300 million users, the Chinese language internet is no different. Everyday more crap is shoveled on: mind numbing press releases/reports which crush readers under statistic after statistic about the square meterage of an upcoming mall and it’s “theme.” Sometimes it seems like every festival, every holiday, every sale, no matter how slight, needs to have some theme attached to it. For example, the upcoming 13th Fashion Ningbo (Ningbo International Fashion Festival) rather needlessly, it seems to me, has the theme of “Innovation, Promotion, Integration, Development.”
The internet is too cool for themes, it has memes. A word I still feel silly using, perhaps because it was invented by Richard Dawkins (in 1976). Here’s what Wikipedia has to ...read more