Its awesome!
More euphoric then the downbeat Show Your Bones, and they've discovered the inner synth lord to give Its Blitz a shimmering surface, and making The Yeah Yeah Yeah's the coolest bad around.
Friday, April 3, 2009
G20-The Greatest Show on Earth
What a ruddy hoopla! 20 million pounds its cost to get the leaders of the 20 most powerful nations on earth all together at the Exel Centre in docklands. For what? Acres of column inches devoted to how the WAGs dressed, and what Jamie Oliver cooked for them and some backslapping press conferences. Nice!What has been achieved then?
Well all the ringmasters agreed straight off that there was a global financial crisis and something had to be done. The solution? Much like many other 'solutions' ,that were wearily becoming accustomed to, it seems to involve pumping trillions of pounds, yen and $$$$ into the global economy. Brilliant were all saved! Protesters go home and take your litter with you. If they had all stayed at home and done this over Skype, then Brown, could have saved 2om and given it to an orphanage. Or Something.
Lets face facts, any policy to come out of this is formulated months is advance and these summits are essentially a PR exercise for beleaguered leaders to get some positive press for when they get home. Essentially its a glorified photocopier sales convention, with slightly less subtlety.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Web 2.No: The internets evolution through my eyes
Web 2.0. What does that mean? I mean what does it actually mean?? According to the ever reliable Wikipedia the definition is :
The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that aim to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
Do you use Facebook? Congratulations your part of the 2.0 generation. Its now 2009, the majority of us have probably started used the internet for 10 years now. Most individuals experience was this: The likes of Dell, started adding modems to home computer systems around 1995/6. Your parents probably dutifully went out and bought one: dad needed it for 'work', mum for household accounts and coursework for the kids.
After an ice age had passed the Internet was correctly hooked up and thus we were able to start cheating on our homework and watch porn. After a year or so the Internet speed improved , we all knew what email was , and websites such as amazon, ebay etc became 'super highway names' and made millions. Thousands of other sites were launched and went onto fail in these early skirmish's.
The early naughties was then was a fairly peculiar time for the Internet. Everyone knew it was fantastic , but what was it for? Step forward Friends Reunited, its worldwide success shocked everyone. Essentially it was a good way of reacquainting yourself with people that you that you used to know and actively disliked.
Around this time blogging took off, everyone from this correspondents mother to Kanye West was at it, detailing the minuate of their lives , which everyone could read, comment on, and abuse unnecessarily. The rise of the Ipod drove people away from their steroes to their PC's.
And then itwent off reservation in 2005. 4 words: 'my' and 'space' and 'You' and 'Tube'. All of a suddenly bands such as Arctic Monkeys were becoming enormous off a pretty tenuous connection to this site by adding some rough demos to the site and letting the 'kids' download them for free (standard business practice now , Gueveraesque revolutionary 4 years ago).
You Tube enabled everyone to watch their favorite clips of TV programmes without resorting to waiting for Aunties bloomers. Both sites had a common theme: you were able to 'Friend' each other on them, and create communities.
And then the biggie: Facebook came along in 2007 and your probably didn't know that you were engaging in the 2nd wave of a Internet revolution as you were to obusy 'throwing a sheep' at your friend Jeff. It literally swept around the world like some some digital black death No fee! Better than friends reunited! Make friends with people you hated and actually see photos of them and find out what there doing: Right Now!!!
And now in 2009: Twitter: initially for most individuals, bemusement upon logging on when you were soon wrapped up in a whirlwind of getting personal messages from Steven Fry , Wossy and , er, Alastair Campbell (in the case of this hack).
And there you have it, the last 10 years of the internet in one handy cut-out and keep guide. Looking to the future who knows, Facebook is quietly, jumping the shark now your uncle is trying to 'friend' you, and Twitter is likely to be seen as an early 2009 fad rather than a long term communication portal.
Whatever the next stage, (and I shudder to think about what web 3.0 is like) it worth to take stock remind us that although in some ways we are now closer together through social networking media, we are strangely still holding each other at arms length. The PC is essentially the equivalent of frosted grass between visitor and convict during prison visiting hours.
Whose for a pint?
The term "Web 2.0" refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that aim to facilitate communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web.
Do you use Facebook? Congratulations your part of the 2.0 generation. Its now 2009, the majority of us have probably started used the internet for 10 years now. Most individuals experience was this: The likes of Dell, started adding modems to home computer systems around 1995/6. Your parents probably dutifully went out and bought one: dad needed it for 'work', mum for household accounts and coursework for the kids.
After an ice age had passed the Internet was correctly hooked up and thus we were able to start cheating on our homework and watch porn. After a year or so the Internet speed improved , we all knew what email was , and websites such as amazon, ebay etc became 'super highway names' and made millions. Thousands of other sites were launched and went onto fail in these early skirmish's.
The early naughties was then was a fairly peculiar time for the Internet. Everyone knew it was fantastic , but what was it for? Step forward Friends Reunited, its worldwide success shocked everyone. Essentially it was a good way of reacquainting yourself with people that you that you used to know and actively disliked.
Around this time blogging took off, everyone from this correspondents mother to Kanye West was at it, detailing the minuate of their lives , which everyone could read, comment on, and abuse unnecessarily. The rise of the Ipod drove people away from their steroes to their PC's.
And then itwent off reservation in 2005. 4 words: 'my' and 'space' and 'You' and 'Tube'. All of a suddenly bands such as Arctic Monkeys were becoming enormous off a pretty tenuous connection to this site by adding some rough demos to the site and letting the 'kids' download them for free (standard business practice now , Gueveraesque revolutionary 4 years ago).
You Tube enabled everyone to watch their favorite clips of TV programmes without resorting to waiting for Aunties bloomers. Both sites had a common theme: you were able to 'Friend' each other on them, and create communities.
And then the biggie: Facebook came along in 2007 and your probably didn't know that you were engaging in the 2nd wave of a Internet revolution as you were to obusy 'throwing a sheep' at your friend Jeff. It literally swept around the world like some some digital black death No fee! Better than friends reunited! Make friends with people you hated and actually see photos of them and find out what there doing: Right Now!!!
And now in 2009: Twitter: initially for most individuals, bemusement upon logging on when you were soon wrapped up in a whirlwind of getting personal messages from Steven Fry , Wossy and , er, Alastair Campbell (in the case of this hack).
And there you have it, the last 10 years of the internet in one handy cut-out and keep guide. Looking to the future who knows, Facebook is quietly, jumping the shark now your uncle is trying to 'friend' you, and Twitter is likely to be seen as an early 2009 fad rather than a long term communication portal.
Whatever the next stage, (and I shudder to think about what web 3.0 is like) it worth to take stock remind us that although in some ways we are now closer together through social networking media, we are strangely still holding each other at arms length. The PC is essentially the equivalent of frosted grass between visitor and convict during prison visiting hours.
Whose for a pint?
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