"Content" has the stink of failure (and it's a lie, besides)

That’s a very good definition of “content” as used in a pejorative sense, and I’d also agree with your point about how IP loons see “content” too. But what does it have to do with the article?

Cory seems to be creating an immensely aesoteric problem where there is in fact no problem at all. He says:

[people who create “content” have ] constrained their content by eliminating all the form-dependent elements, and thereby constrained their ability to communicate the full range of human ideas.

Call me demanding, but it would sure help if somebody could give a good contemporary example of what he’s talking about. We can’t be talking about the fact that infographics don’t work well as ASCII art or something - or are we?

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