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If any of you have some coding chops, I challenge you to create a journalism-inspired Web app with AppJet. Let me know of your creation and I’ll link to it. Here’s a note-taking program in AppJet’s list.

Services like these incline me to think that it’s not just content that will be remixed on the Web, but the structure, layout and appearance of your Web pages (think of zapping ads or modifying CSS on the fly with Firefox add-ons).

The user is in control, so it pays to design with that in mind.

But as David Byrne said in his description of his tour of the New York Times building, filtering, which means organizing (controlling) information, is a valuable service because many folks prefer to pay others to make decisions about information’s importance and packaging.

So don’t stop creating great work, just recognize it will be blown part and reassembled, and try to remain relevant in the destruction/recreation process.