Horatiox – I agree that the definition of “creative” has taken a lot of hits lately, and I think we’ve only just begun.

Unfortunately, you may be correct. Much blog-speak tends to a lowest-common denominator sort of bar-room discussion: that can be perceived on the current political slam-fests on DailyKOS or one of its many spin-offs. Or the Fray. In addition to the incessant yelling matches and the insta-pundits, there’s a great deal of imagery, ads, malware, flash, and of course the porno aspect.

I don’t think Youtube helped matters too much: some spam-artistes take their latest embedding of a Monty python episode, for instance, to be some profoundly creative act.
The Net needn’t be a sort of cyber-arcade; the research and archiving aspects of the Internet for example will remain important, hopefully.

Is there a difference between a female viewpoint of the internet “everyone is here and we are all communicating” and a male viewpoint of “I want to know ‘x’”?