Bob La Quey wrote:
If you look at what is happening it is called Web 2.0, facebook, ning, orkut, picasa, flickr, del.icio.us ... all that you guys are discussing is so far behind the curve as to be irrelevant.
I don't agree. Web 2.0 *still* hasn't produced anything worth talking about.
Web 1.0 took information and made it globally available. Those of us who started sysadminning right around the late 80's are really the first cyborgs with external memory. The Internet cannot be administered without the Internet anymore. A sysadmin without a network connection is effectively functioning without a major portion of a brain.
That's a huge change. And it's still rippling through.
I know I am just an old fart enamoured with "new, shiny" but so are 70 million face book members ...
And they are now declining in number because, well, it really doesn't *do* anything, and it *doesn't* substitute for real face-to-face contact.
Using online for "social" things goes through phases. This one is flaming out. Another one will rise up in 2-3 years. Repeat ad infinitum.
Meanwhile Obama rasies $40 million in one moth because his crew gets it.
That's a good start. However, it's still effectively the same game with a slightly different way of extracting money. He still needs that $40 million to go after the 2/3 of the country that doesn't get it and is susceptible to propaganda.
Different would be finding a way to use the net so that you don't need the $40 million but can still reach most of the country. Now *that* would be genuinely different.
Get with the program folks.
It's easy to criticize. However, when it comes time to actually run for an officer slot or take on some responsibility for the club, everybody seems to run the other direction.
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