RSS Killed the Designer Star
Here we have the gazillionth take on that old web designer canard, stagnation of web design, and its redheaded stepchild, "design piracy." Via Jason "MiddleBrow 2.0" Kottke.
It makes you wonder. People seem to think that distributing stuff someone else makes is "sharing," and distributing stuff they produce is "piracy."
Part of the discussion is true though: A combination of RSS and blogging has lead to the slow agonizing death of the design site.
Leaving those who thought that the "content" was just something for them to wrap their design around pretty much out in the cold.
I've always noticed the inherent contradiction in people who exalted the "populism" of the Macintosh as a liberating force from the computer "priesthood" being incredible elitists when it comes to their own place in the scheme of things: the problem with the system is that I'm not in charge of it.