Some people still have never heard of this website: despair.com. The best motivationnal website of the world.
They just started a hilarious video podcast series. I love them.
If you don’t know them here is one of their poster:
On a sidenote, you see how much the Web can be disruptive and why cool stuffs tend to emerge from the Web.
(source: David Byrne’s blog)
Who leads the pack?
When the rich get richer, they get more beautiful and more appealing. Simply because they can afford it. On the other hand, poor people cannot afford to go to the gym, cannot afford to eat quality food. Please look at the picture upper for an illustration of this concept. The guy at the center is the CEO, the other around his slaves (errr… His employees).
It puts also in light the reversal of values you feel the older you get. Young, you are attracted to beauty/wildness (say a rock star). Around 25, to a situation: someone with a steady job (say an accountant). (NB Being smart has never entered into the picture).
As we say, success appeal success…
I deeply hope I am way too cynical and the world do not work like this.
David Byrne (the one from the Talking Heads) writes about this picture too (I took it from his blog) and how money, fame and so on can be seens as a not-so-subtle mating ritual.
From Tim Bray, his own état de l’art analysis. Quite interesting. Especialy for someone like me with a strong focus on distributed computing.
I will comment on it later (after my exams probably, right now I have a lot, a lot of work)
One of the few blogs understanding mobile content and market. I work in it so I know a few things about it and this blog has a really deep and interesting vision. I don’t say this only because I think the same myself.
Every website can be represented as a graph. Each HTML tag is a node with a color depending on what it is. This is a really simple idea but with good result.
Here is this blog as a graph.
Where is art in this image? In the process, art is entering a phase where the process is the key. The meaning comes from the artist, the process (usually a code) and the reader. This is nothing new, but Internet has accelerated this evolution. Interactive art might can be the mighty successor of pop-art.
Here are wezbsites as graphs on FlickR
I don’t often blog about other blogs and when I do, I take some distance. This time I cannot. This is a page on the top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future. Everything presented there is really cool.
Enjoy!
O’Reilly and CMP have deposed a trademark on Web 2.0 (only for industry events). And are suing competitors who use it. Does it seem right to you?
They advocated this term and now they protect it. As a consumer, I could think they want more to earn money than help the world/technosphere evolve.
Something seems terribly wrong.
(source David Babylon)
This action is the beginning of their end. When trying to get out too much money out of something might kill the idea (see macro-economy theory). Next step: sue web 2.0 company?
Anyway, I didn’t even like Web 2.0. I propose to use a new common name. Any idea?
Via Slashdot.
Update of May 27 2006
O’Reilly have obviously realised they may have made a mistake. It is still not enough.
Update of May 31
An interesting response from Tim O’Reilly
If you want to download it, just click. I don’t know how long, Office 2007 will stay in beta. Therefore when this link will become invalid.
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