a change of state?

Tribe.net just apparently had a big change in the management team. I have been going there less and less over the last year. As much as I'd wanted to ignore Warren Ellis statements that the place was becoming a graveyard, it became apparent that his predictive facilities are better than my own. The currency of an online community is content, and the value of that currency is based on attention. Tribe made consistent, suicidal moves to increase its own value as a brand while stamping on the ability of its users to actually post things that interest them, and to have them found by other users easiliy. Tribe had been restricting the flow of information, sometimes even preemptively.

I don't know yet if they're going to change their tune on Title 18, Section 2257, but at least they seem to have pulled their head out from the sand, and begun to realize they have managed to turn themselves nearly as irrelevant as Friendster has.

Oddly enough, logging in now shows the Tribe logo shedding it's hated red coloring for it's original orange one, which makes it look like it's standing in blood; it looks like a coup d'web has taken place.

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Well, crap. Not that I need any more TV to watch, but I am sad to learn via Warren Ellis' BAD SIGNAL maillist that Spike has chosen not to continue Blade: The Series. I was very much looking forward to seeing where they might take the mythos, and how the series would evolve. Apparently the show is now being shopped around for pickup by a different network, but I don't hold out a lot of hope for such things, post-Firefly. Oddly, Ellis mentioned it in context of interest in a direct-to-DVD as having potential for a series. There may be room in that business model, but it is hard to see how that could work for Blade if Spike can't get a flagship, known property to generate money for them.