The Trouble With New Media Is That It's Full Of New Media

And Errol Schwartz seems to know this better than anyone.

New Media characteristics courtesy of Wikipedia:

1. manipulable
2. networkable
3. dense
4. compressible
5. impartial

Some more subjective New Media impressions courtesy of Errol Schwartz:

1. Corrupted files
2. Deadlines
3. Web fonts
4. Stock Imagery
5. Clients
6. Missing plugins
7. Rendering
8. Drop shadows
9. File Sizes
10. Action Script

The two shuffled together:

1. Reefs filled with blarble
2. Tricky Flash
3. Slick iMac-iTunes-iPhone-iEverythiing
4. Hep happenin' digital culture at book stores where everyone reads and wants to be the next Bill Gates
5. If everyone went 'ahhh', and the aliens replied 'eeeee', then the full moon would talk to the old moon and the wild Aries would party up there with us down here

Why don't they just let everyone pose on the corners of cyberspace urban scapes?