» Is the Internet the New New York?
New York has always been a destination for those in search of a big break. But these days, there’s another place of opportunity—the Internet. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. Bill Wasik, a senior editor at Harper’s, in the NYT:
The experience of moving online actually bears quite a few similarities to becoming a New Yorker. Disorienting and seemingly endless, the Internet conversation moves at lightning speed and according to unstated social rules that can bewilder outsiders. Also, like New Yorkers, residents of the Internet do not suffer fools, or mince words in belittling them, as anyone who has contributed a redundant post to Metafilter, or an earnest comment to Gawker, can attest.
