Understanding Trash Criticism is not merely a game, a chance for the reviewer's to display his superiority to the common herd or an opportunity for stand-up comedy in fancy clothes. Farther afield from the friendly confines of literature, the narratives of sport, too, are large and complex. Web professionals can easily convince themselves that almost everything is unusably bad. A guide to techniques for judging Web sites. Type and Hypertext Changing technology and taste are transforming the look of the Web.
Practical postmodernism explains the interplay between the look of the page and what it says.
The Arms Race Competition for coolness shaped the first Arms Race on the Web. Information Architectures for the World Wide Web says little about information architecture, but its lessons from library science are useful for making large sites easier to understand. The Hypertext Patterns of ScruTiny in the Great Round Cycles, mirrorworlds, and counterpoint. Webonomics Evan Schwartz's recent book contends that Web sites offer real value only when they respond to the individual. Beyond Winners and Losers Esther Dyson's Release 2.0 epitomizes realistic idealism.