"There may be some technical matters to work out before dynamic content can be fed into Foursquare, but I'm sure the company is working on those….I'm ready to follow the local historical society, an environmental justice organization or two, perhaps an art-graffiti-watchers association – the possibilities are nearly endless. Imagine allowing background location tracking and notification for some layers. "To see the world through the lenses of my favorite organizations" would be a nice addition to the reasons why people say they use check-in apps.

"Internet expression coming from outside traditional media culture could simply be considered as a form of folk or outsider culture, but it’s more typically described as a kind of threat: political blogs opposing the mainstream media or Wikipedia serving as an alternative to the Encyclopedia Britannica. There was some talk along these lines at ROFLCon, but the way Internet memes work suggests a more comfortable synthesis, maybe even a codependency. Many riff off or simply appropriate familiar mainstream-media material. And these days the interesting things done by people who don’t know they are interesting can be instantly referenced on “South Park” or “Family Guy” or just reported as news."