I love it when other people’s rants parallel my own, and when something is published the same day it occurs to me in the shower.
I’ve ranted about Jakob Nielsen’s dumbing down of innovation in web design before, and now the torch is carried by Shirky in Shirky vs. Nielsen. I think making plenty of mistakes in order to find a better way mirrors the rest of society and is a more natural, organic growth pattern for design on the web.
It’s evolution, it the spreading of memes, it’s the river of out Eden.