Fri 4 Jan 2008
Predictions for 2008
Posted by Wolfy under how clever am i
Welcome to the i am indisposed first annual new years predictions post. Herein I will expound about how I expect the world to change next year. Since I’m almost never right about predictions I’ll not restrict myself to reality…
And here we go:
- The new year will bring AMAzing amounts of new snow to Tahoe and the Sierra and I will ski it all with impunity.
- People will realize that high definition TV is like polishing a turd when it comes to local news personalities (Tad Dunbar).
- Twelve Horses will dominate internet viral video in the category of “office antics…“
- Smella and I will go on our trip out of the country and have an “adventure.”
- Web 2.0 will realize that we don’t want or need service specific inboxes and that emails telling you have an email w/o the ability to read it or respond to it are STOOOPID! (Flickr, YouTube, Broadbancsports.com, MySpace AND ESPECIALLY Facebook.com: I’m looking at YOU!)
- People will start to realize that social media providers are NOT taking advantage of user generated media and that notoriety and popularity are freely tradeable commodities. (that could be the most profound thing I’ve typed all year…)
- Half my female friends will be, or get pregnant…
- Someone will get back to the car after a bike ride and say: Goddam your dog is FAST!
- Someone will come up with something cooler than the ipod that you can sync on an open sourced, plugin compatible platform from multiple machines, use as a drive AND play music, expand as new products are available that is neither WHITE nor CHROME nor a massive repository for hand, nose and FACE goo…
- I will be a NINE year resident of Reno (freaking) Nevada and NINE years older than I was NINE years ago, and Smella and I will be celebrating our Diamond/Tin Wedding anniversary [ that only sounds HALF expensive].
-M
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January 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Come on fool. T. Dunbar isn’t on TV anymore. I hope.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Nice! Regarding #6, can you expound upon that some more? Isn’t YouTube doing that?
January 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I was referring to people Like This. But yeah YouTube is providing a service, not exploiting MY intellectual property. Twitter and Facebook too. They are exposing my goofballings to 10’s of people [ok not a good example], but if you want to be Mel Gibson you go to hollywood, if you want to be a weirdo raving about Brittney, YouTube it is!!!
Even if you have a business that wants to syndicate Flickr or YouTube photos for their own corporate website, then as long as the brand is strong enough that the users feel good about the association, they we [i mean they] are giving something in return. [Goddammit Dave GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!]
-M
January 5th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Gotcha. Just read the Social Media post. I agree with you. One could expand that arguement out to the daily exercise of getting up to go to work, putting gas in your car, and paying taxes. The world is full of choices. Opportunities for success, and chances for taking a wrong turn and finding yourself down some deep dark alley. But to even try and compare social media to slavery is such an insult to those that were true slaves. I would be really surprised if that post did not come from the most lily of white folk. The analogy sucks.