There are plenty of off ramps on the Internet road map. Artists must see their road map as a way made by finding what these destinations offer. The impulse to investigate the mechanisms in the background, and discover the way road maps are directing attention, is part of creating art works today that are attuned to the next Internet.
In its earliest days the Internet was compared to a super highway.
When malls were still the favorite gathering places, social networks came in to the Internet as main streets in small town plans for attracting department stores back, clogging the super highway with off ramps to return us to small town relationships.
A super highway with one offramp after another, backing up with distracted users, is now the condition Web 2.0 is in. The benefit of this to the artist is the variety of mechanisms that platforms have built into continuing to satisfy an individual's selection of their one particular offramp.
Steemit, for instance, has an image storage approach that independently opens dynamic zoom and pan in a separate viewer window if its link is in a Facebook post. Why this is part of Steemit is not known. But since it is a common practice for Facebook to degrade the details of uploads by compressing them to near thumbnail quality, access to this window from a post on Steemit is a tremendous benefit to any artist selling digitally rare images.
To the innovative artist building a road map, giving objects a digital identity by making comparisons a means of verifying their relationship to an algorithm is what Twitter and Facebook and Medium and whatever else is made for the common road map are made to be only good at. Giving a digital artwork archived authenticity on one of these platforms when Steemit has given it this special window within a blockchain supported mechanism adds value to the art.
This methodology is written out at a level of discourse, promoted by an algorithm for attracting readers that would get it, in Medium.com. A second reference medium for this is distributed as the simple text and hypertext context of 170 Kb http://www.greatknot.com/2.html used at the origins of this road.
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