Archive for February 2008

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Goodbye Web 2.0 - El Dorado Lost?

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What in the world happened to the promise of Web 2.0? Whatever it was, we are now bogged down in mud hole only slightly resembling the “El Dorado” [...]

Widget Madness - When Do We Get Real Tools?

Widgets, sometimes the simple mention of the word brings to mind visions of cute little tools that perform cute little functions so many are enamored with. While some of these cool tools do actually perform valuable tasks and help users, most are simply worthless except for short term entertainment.
Consider that the total U.S. unique viewers [...]

Who Is Part Of My Life? - Part 2

I was tagged today by Maryanna from over in Hooterville, well not the real Hooterville but the digital correspondent if there is one. The objective of this meme “Who is part of my life?” is to promote the idea of how we can touch one another in small and great ways I suppose, and I [...]

StumbleUpon Blues - What’s Right and What’s Wrong

All is fair in love and war right? We are all in love with social networks and particularly when they do stuff for us. Well, StumbleUpon is perhaps the most rewarding of the social networks - but alas not without its detractive elements. There is a big difference between wanting or needing exposure on these [...]

China, Human Rights and the Olympics

I can’t help but feel that China must be seeming rather surreal to many of her citizens these days. With the upcoming Olympics around the corner, rampant industrialization replete with huge human and environmental costs and nearly constant news of human rights issues - one has to feel for the people there. Are human rights [...]