MixedThe Arts FuseThere’s a great book to be written about how everyday users create the content that powers the web, while billionaires reap the profits. But this one isn’t it ... [One argument is] right on target ... [Walsh] makes more than that economic argument, though. She also argues that web users have created their own distinctive online aesthetic and traces how that aesthetic has evolved since the earliest days of the web. And that’s where things go off the rails ... Her writing and analysis of the changing web’s aesthetic is so full of dense jargon, fractured syntax, and attempts to be au courant at all times, that it’s largely incomprehensible ... It’s also seriously marred by Walsh trying far too hard to find big meanings and portents where there are none ... Suffice it to say, in Walsh’s desperate attempt to find meaning where there’s none, she gets everything in it wrong.
