Go Tweet Yourself

Why waste valuable social networking hours getting yourself "Facebook fired," when Twitter allows you to humiliate yourself quickly, and in 140 characters or less?

Maybe you will find inspiration reading two articles,
one from NY Times by Maureen Dowd "To Tweet or Not to Tweet" and local one from Irish Times "Tiresome tweets as heavy hitters turn to Twitter" by Lucy Kellaway.

Geek's Orchestra

Bohemian Rapsody performed by Atari 800XL, HP Scanjet, Commodore C64 & C128 and 5.25"floppy disk drives . Enjoy...

New Heights in Googlephobia: “A Delinquent, Sociopathic Parasite”?

Really interesting article from the Technology Liberation Front in response to the Porter's attack on google published recently in The Guardian.

Porter says not a word about Google’s role as an economic fountainhead of online innovation and creativity. He simply dismisses Google as “delinquent and sociopathic.” One might dismiss Porter as just another crank in the “Long Tail of Googlephobia,” but his 188-year-old newspaper, The Guardian, is among the world’s most respected. With a circulation 1/3 that of the New York Times and 1/2 that of The Washington Post (in a nation five times smaller than the U.S.), The Guardian is serious when it claims to be “the world’s leading liberal voice.” For those unimpressed by any newspaper, note that Porter’s rant topped Techmeme today. So rants like Porter’s are being heard—no matter how unfounded they are....

Will anyone be surprised when papers like The Guardian give space to a modern-day Chambers to rant about how Google is the Third Reich reborn—or how Google is The Matrix made real? Every rant like Porter’s makes it just a little harder to have a serious, rational conversation about Google and its impact on society—both good and ill. If that’s the kind of “journalism” Porter thinks Google is killing, it’s not worth saving. The only thing more ironic than Porter’s attack on Google for undermining serious journalism—something of which he himself seems incapable—is the juxtaposition of Google’s ads with Porter’s official profile on The Guardian:

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Web 2.0 Bubble Bursts?

I heard once joke about mental difference between average American and European:
Ask European what's the purpose of opening new school? " to educate people" will be the answer.
What's the purpose of building railway network? "to move goods".
What's the purpose of building new hospital? "to heal people".
Well, average American would say driven force behind building schools, hospitals and rail networks is to make profit.

What does it has in common with web 2.0?
Well, it's quite horrifying that more and more on-line business runs out of ideas how to monetize their existence. Did they have any idea in the first place?
You Tube didn't manage to make any profit before google took it over. CNet was on the verge of collapse before CBS bailed it out. Is Twitter making any money at all?

Web 2.0 social websites managed to attract zillions of users. That's great.
At the moment number of registered users & visitors are the only measures of success. That's quite scary. Does it remind you something? Dot-com boom was largely based on the same way of thinking "we will find the way how to make profit later on". They didn't.
This time the biggest "success" of new digital entrepreneur is to attract as many people as possible and sale business to google.

That doesn't sound like good-old entrepreneurship at all. Would you hand over your hard earn cash to somebody who says "I don't have any idea how to make this profitable but hopefully one day somebody will buy it out and shower us with cash"?

I can tell you it reminds me one day. Thursday. The 24th of October to be exact.

Blog Smlog

No value in blogging say 33pc of tech execs.

A recent survey of senior technology executives – 12pc of whom were based in Ireland – was carried out by global PR network Eurocom Worldwide to ascertain the attitude of these high level individuals towards blogging. The results were interesting....

With such a small number of these companies maintaining a corporate blog it was critical to find out what attitudes they held towards blogging and the blogosphere: 36pc just put their hands and admitted that it was too time consuming while a further 33pc did not see any value in blogging whatsoever.

Full article on Silicon Republic.