Apparently, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released a new album earlier this year, and I totally missed it. Therefore, my thing of the day is Nick Cave. If you don't know about him, the Bad Seeds, or Grinderman, educate yourself.
Also, for your listening and viewing pleasure, one of my favorite songs. Ever.
The first internet revolution was when hoi polloi were allowed on the internet (think BLINK tags, personal home pages, hamster dance). Really this was the birth of the web, or the death of it, if you were an academic institution. At that time, it was still possible to find facts on the internet.
Next was when commerce got excited about it (amazon, e-(fill-in-name).com etc.) more hoi polloi got on board as the internet became interesting to people who didn’t find computers inherently interesting. It became much harder to find boring “facts†as they were drowned in corporate “messagesâ€.
Web2.0 is the commercial interests taking our stuff off us. Rather than personal home pages, email and servers running from geeks’ basements, we have facebook, google docs etc. It’s about millions of people gladly turning over their personal material to massive global corporations on the vague assumption that there’s some kind of ethical boundary that nobody would dare cross. It is “the internet†saying “don’t worry about your stuff. we’ll look after it for you. In fact it’s our stuff now but you can still play with itâ€. Facts and messages are swamped by comments on ratings of reviews of comments on products that help you rate comments."
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Hmmm... more dancing skills.
Mekuri Master
Also, for your listening and viewing pleasure, one of my favorite songs. Ever.
...Funny Asian Drum Machine Guy is is coming for you!
"Yay! I worked out what Web2.0 is!
The first internet revolution was when hoi polloi were allowed on the internet (think BLINK tags, personal home pages, hamster dance). Really this was the birth of the web, or the death of it, if you were an academic institution. At that time, it was still possible to find facts on the internet.
Next was when commerce got excited about it (amazon, e-(fill-in-name).com etc.) more hoi polloi got on board as the internet became interesting to people who didn’t find computers inherently interesting. It became much harder to find boring “facts†as they were drowned in corporate “messagesâ€.
Web2.0 is the commercial interests taking our stuff off us. Rather than personal home pages, email and servers running from geeks’ basements, we have facebook, google docs etc. It’s about millions of people gladly turning over their personal material to massive global corporations on the vague assumption that there’s some kind of ethical boundary that nobody would dare cross. It is “the internet†saying “don’t worry about your stuff. we’ll look after it for you. In fact it’s our stuff now but you can still play with itâ€. Facts and messages are swamped by comments on ratings of reviews of comments on products that help you rate comments."
Edit - I managed to make it all the way, but it was shameful, I hopped/crawled on one knee.
I probably could have beat the game given a huge amount of patience and a quick break for carpal tunnel therapy.
EDIT: Churba seems to have beat me to it.
Despite popular opinion, I really enjoy some of these videos.
At 50m there is a hurdle!
A chicken is really good at keeping its head still.
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