Lists are limiting not only in the physical sense, but also in the definitional: in categorizing Twitter users—‘Funny People,’ ‘Smart People,’ ‘People Interested in the Mating Habits of Short-Nosed Fruit Bats,’ etc.—they generally highlight only one aspect of a user’s personality and then define the user according to it.
Megan Garber, in the Columbia Journalism Review
Good, good, good—other people see it, too. Very curious to see what people think of the Twitter lists experiment I’m cooking up. Should be real at some point tomorrow.
