Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Killing Us...

Here we go...

You had to know that this was going to be the next attack on progress. I intend to collect all of the articles of this vein I can find. If you find some you would like to share for this meme (each of which will find its own entry in this blog), by all means send them via comment, and you will be credited appropriately. I noticed this morning on FR3 that Le Figaro has an article on how Facebook is killing us...as soon as the web version catches up, I'll post that here as well.

This one in a nutshell:

"The constant need to publish new and exciting facts is putting stress on successful bloggers, and the recent deaths from heart attacks of three popular writers is causing something of a rethink in the industry."

Yes, and beat writers were SO healthy back in the heyday of the newspaper....

Yet Another Scientist Who Isn't Well-Read...

Professor Susan Greenfield claims that Facebook is turning our kids' skulls into mush and making our kids egocentric (!) Nevermind their parents...

Obviously, she also has not read Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter!

The Problem with Pointing out Problems About the Metaverse

Yet another article pointing out how impractical it is to, say, order a pizza via Second Life. What makes it worse is that Skribe goes through a mini-history of pushing the tech. envelope for such mundane tasks...but not far enough to evoke how difficult doing this (now a routine thing) was when the Internet was in its nascent stage. The Metaverse will evolve, these complaints (which sound a lot like those of 20 years ago) will be addressed, and the Metaverse will emerge as the new Internet platform. I can't judge intent. If the intent was "wishlist/bug fix" in nature, then this is fine. But if, as I suspect, this is a whine that states the obvious, then I just lost 5 minutes I'll never get back... ;-)

Which conference session would you go to, and why?

I was reading an article attempting to debunk common [mis]perceptions about study abroad, but I got sidetracked by the very first paragraph. It made me want to ask: which is more interesting, conference sessions that "orient participants into the accepted language and landscape of a shared profession" or that "thoroughly rip apart the rhetoric and deconstruct a field’s founding myth"? If you had to choose, which one would you attend, and why?

If you got this from Bb...

This is what passes for hilarious when one is up until midnight finishing an interview protocol due in the morning and surfs YouTube looking for something hypnotic to numb the mind:

I'm either dating myself or I'm not well, and I don't care to know which. Very stream-of-consciousness...

I tried to express this to my CSE 560 class, but embeds are still verboten in there, and I for some reason could not get an a href tag to work. I put in the link....I'm curious to see who goes out to the link, and even more curious to see what reactions occur from those that venture to a site with no context beforehand... I think I'll reply to my thread with a link to this post just to see who has no life...

If you are in 560 and you are reading this, you officially have no life! Welcome to the club. Sign the "guestbook" by commenting on this post....

A First Post from the Grid

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VolNation - Testing SLurlBlogger on VolNation when I should be writing up an interview protocol or finishing Debby's codesheet!

Is THIS Mac Easy Enough For 'Ya? IS IT?

Not for the weak of heart...it is, after all, the Onion. While I disagree with the Pro-PC rant, this would be the perfect Mac for everyone that thinks that Macs are SO haaarrrdd to get!

Caveat auditor:


Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard