Just reading what I think is an important article about the maturity (read adolescence) of the web as a medium for art and ideas. Jonathan Harris presented this at a conference on Flash but I think what he is saying makes sense in many contexts. I think this quote is particularly noteworthy:
“There is a long-standing unspoken pact between tools and their owners, which says that tools should disappear the moment you stop needing them. This is the way that pencils, hammers, and leaf-blowers behave. But many of our technological devices – iPods, cellphones, laptops, Blackberries – have violated this pact and overstepped their boundary, asserting themselves onto the lives of their owners, becoming constant distractions.”
