found_drama

Earlier this week, I linked out to an article about “why [tag]Web 2.0[/tag] will end your [tag]privacy[/tag]” and then (via B^2) I see this one on “hot products from the [tag]future[/tag]“.  I immediately thought of the printed Wired’s back-page monthly feature “FOUND ARTIFACTS FROM THE FUTURE!” that I so enjoy.  Of course, the convergence point of the two above-mentioned articles comes in with items 4 & 5: the “American Premiere” reputation statement (whuffie, anyone?) and the movie tickets that invite your local friends (I thought the $15 price tag was cute and so were those antique nickles).

• The Indexed [tag]Phobia[/tag] List confirms that “ambulo” and “thanato” are good roots to use in my [tag]zombie[/tag]-phobia neologism. (And Dictionary.com confirms that “ambulo” is the preferred prefix in the phobia realm for “walking”.)
• Little piece off bit-tech.net on “Why [tag]Web 2.0[/tag] will end your privacy” (at least, your privacy as you know it … [tag]spime[/tag]-watch anyone?)
• Via TUAW: [tag]Painter’s Picker[/tag] is the new mandatory system-wide OS X plug-in. Download it. Now! I mean it!
• A List Apart: The Four-Day Week Challenge
• Keep checking back: one Seattle family tries living car-free for a year
  • SIDE NOTE: Interesting to note here who their audience is. Let’s (safely?) assume that they’re trying to reach people in their same demographic: middle-class white polluters families. There are plenty of working-class folk living in urban areas that are already practicing this lifestyle - - and not by choice. But hey, let’s hope their message reaches at least some of the folks they’re trying to reach.

  currently playing: Faith No More “Caralho Voador”

Open note to all those working on the “[tag]social software product[/tag][s]” of “[tag]Web 2.0[/tag]” (or are otherwise pre-gaming for [tag]Zeldman[/tag]’s hypothetical [tag]Web 3.0[/tag]):

[tag]Semantic equivalent[/tag]s in tagging apps.

I don’t think this is anything remotely like a new idea but SERIOUSLY please make your applications smart.  And by “smart”, I mean that if you’re going to include ways of tagging [fill-in-the-blank plural nouns] have the app be [tag]semantically aware[/tag].  Tags of “Rome” may generalize associatively to “Italy”; “sexy” and “erotic” may generalize synonymously; see where I’m going with this?

Matthew Thomas on how to tell the difference between Web 1.0 and [tag]Web 2.0[/tag]. Good for a chuckle.