[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.

In my ‘Casulties of the Web 2.0 Revolution‘ entry I bemoaned the death of the concept of Cyberspace. Today Sardionerak wrote an interesting entry on Second Life. While I’ve been aware of Second Life for a while, I had never considered it in the context of trying to revive the old Cyberspace / […]

In some ways Web 2.0 is a bit of a disappointment. Professor Michael Wesch, in this beautiful video, defines the early internet as purely hypertext–about linking information. He holds “Web 1.0″ over and against Web 2.0, which he characterizes as the separation of form from content using technologies like XML in order to […]

And radical marketers: stay away from Boston.
When the folks behind Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim” hired New York guerilla marketing agency Interference, Inc. to promote the cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the results turned into a pathetic display of “the culture of fear” in Boston. The agency hired people in several large US cities to […]

I am so sick of hearing “web 2.0.” Anyone working with websites generally has to put up with a certain amount of worthless, empty jargon, but this one has a longevity and infectious nature that disturbs me. It’s like the ebola of buzzwords. At the phptek conference in Florida, some guy stood […]

The results are in for the web usage survey circulated to current students and incoming freshman here at Warren Wilson.

Social Networks, especially MySpace and Facebook, are in
Outside social networks, students aren’t interested in web-based community
iPods and MP3 players are definitely in, but for music
Blogs, Podcasts, and RSS are out (in the case of RSS - […]

[…] The best way for me to innovate and enjoy what I do is to go native. Time to slip into the digital tribe and move among its peoples—virtual, 3D hands brushing in the darkness of social networked second lives, a million onymous youth dancing hyper-textualy into the night, the thrumming of drum and bass shared via mapped music genomes, and the twinkling glow of liquid-crystal-pixels offering up the entire geo-positioned world like an altar to a social, multi-cultural, semantic, hive-minded, Mercurial GOD.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ - Blog of Danah Boyd. A PhD student studying privacy and the internet.
http://greenteaicecream.co.uk/ - “Social Value and the Social Web”
http://www.fastcompany.com/ - Interesting blog associated with Fast Company magazine.

I am taking a hiatus for the remainder of the summer to finish some hulking, be-fanged programming projects. Once those are complete, I am going to “take off the training wheels” on erelevant–redesign and revision it around a broader central theme. It will be less personal, less inflammatory and more topical and content-oriented. […]

When Time magazine named “You” as its person of the year in 2006, it was a ham-handed attempt to salute “user-generated content” as the driving force behind Web 2.0. Last year MySpace and YouTube commanded $580 million and $1.6 billion, respectively, because regular folks participate in the grand techno-democratic experiment, baring their souls to the […]