Backlash to the future?
Posted: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:51 PM by Will Femia
Pew took in opinions on the future of the Internet by 2020. I clicked this highlighting but the stand-out was this sentence from the BBC article: "Almost 60% said that a counter culture of Luddites would emerge, some resorting to violence." Blade Runner, here we come.
As you may know, the biggest challenge with online audio and video is that it's not searchable and it isn't easy to scan the way text is. Some have suggested avoiding the technology until the problem is solved. So it's exciting to read this review of Pluggd on TechCrunch. They run podcasts against voice recognition to make them searchable and chunk them to make them browsable. Check out the relevance time line heat map. Neat.
Speaking of the future, could we be seeing the future of online advertising in the new Techmeme model? They've sold space on the page for sponsors' blogs. Not banners or keywords but blog space.
Speaking of podcasts, Top 5 corporate podcast mistakes to avoid like the plague - I like the combination of the first three, which boils down to figuring out who's going to do the podcast once it's decided that a company needs or wants one.
The immensely fun game of line rider. Draw the line and hit play and the little sled guy slides down your line.
Speaking of fun games, check out this description of "Payphone Warriors." So far we haven't seen many real-world public games catch on in the mainstream (geocaching? flashmobbing?) but they always sound like so much fun it's surely just a matter of time for them to catch on. Afterthought: Poker runs are the most successful example I can think of.
Speaking of fun and games, there's a new version of the Sand Game. No objective that I know of. Pure time waster.
Women use 20,000 words a day, men only 7,000 - or so says a new bestseller. Fact-checking ``The Female Brain." The short answer is that the facts don't support that stat. The author doesn't go on much of a tirade about the inherent sexism of the perpetuation of the stat, but she probably could.
Moonwalking bird - Probably would not be as funny without the music and dancing scientist.
Lifehacker offers a link bonanza of free online college courses.
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared
Making your blog popular through content - What a refreshing post. So often lately, the "make your blog popular" entries are about marketing tricks and search engine optimization.
How to grab a gun away. NOTE: Not responsible for you getting your head blown off thinking you're a ninja just because you watched this video.
GOP aide busted for fake blog posts on liberal sites - This keeps happening on both sides of the aisle. I don't recall this being part of the prediction when blogs were first becoming part of the political process.
How TiVo Can Cut Your Electricity Bill By 15% - Not actual Tivo, but the same idea. It consumes electricity when rates are cheapest, and stores it for you to use whenever you need. Here's the product site if you're interested in more.
Bob Burnquist skates a loop and doesn't end up like this guy. Note: A somewhat audible S-bomb in the second clip. Also, though the second link is SFW, who knows what you find if you click deeper.
Putting a starter pistol in your luggage ensures it won't get lost or "lost."
