Thread: The Internet Revolution is Here

Oh boy, my favorite subject.

Web 2.0 has it's strong points and it's pitfalls. The most important aspect of Web 2.0 is the seperation of content and form. CSS, RSS, and XML as a whole really helps keep everything organized and easy to syndicate, which is important in an internet that relies on machines to organize data. Web 2.0 can work for you if you let it. One thing, though, that really gets on my nerves is the community aspect of Web 2.0. Stories make it through the blog world (or blogosphere for all you buzzword junkies) much like rumors do, which becomes a problem when so many people trust blogs as a reliable news source. One other thing to mention is that when people read a blog, it's much more personal than reading, say, a newspaper column. People connect on a different level to these articles, and this leaves more room for persuasion, manipulation, and sensationalism to create a "movement", so to speak, for a specific cause. For example, remember the battle for Net Neutrality? This is a prime example of bloggers (and digg, oh digg..) creating tremendous hype against a bill that, if put into effect, would really hit home for everybody with internet property. There were dates, dates, in which the internet was supposed to cease being a "neutral network". Well those dates have long gone and nothing has happened yet. Just goes to show you what kind of power the internet has on people - If only they could learn to be more critical when reading articles.

That being said, the basic theory behind Web 2.0 is a very powerful one, and if used correctly, could again revolutionize the very way we use information.

Um, MSG, I think this guy is a bot...?

I jump at every opportunity

To voice my opinion

So WHATEVER

I can't wait to see Web 3.0, and the great advances in the porn industry coming out of it :-).

I think the ECMA folks should just bite the bullet and make JavaScript support RMI. That'll be the ultimate in Ajaxiness (not to mention security hole-iness, but hey, that's part of the process).

Originally Posted by ataraxis

Um, MSG, I think this guy is a bot...?

Odd name (+1)
New / no other posts (+4)
Offtopic (could be Tech Talk or Lounge, but not Entertainment) (+2)
Link to commercial site (+3), concealed by using a misleading title (+3)

Still, damn sneaky compared to the usual lot. Well spotted ataraxis.

Mods: Pls don't kill the thread, just the link and the user, its funny and a pity to erase MSG's post when he made so much effort :-).

Seriously, MSG, what happened to "I will eat your spider"? The goth girl in pink isn't half as disturbing without a suitable caption.

Originally Posted by sourcejedi

Odd name (+1)
Mods: Pls don't kill the thread, just the link and the user, its funny and a pity to erase MSG's post when he made so much effort :-).

Seriously, MSG, what happened to "I will eat your spider"? The goth girl in pink isn't half as disturbing without a suitable caption.

Har har

And weird story, that. "I will rape your soul" was the first caption, and it went along with this image - THen I changed it to a small child eating a spider, and well, changed it to "I will eat your spider". The IPB upgrade after that disallowed me to change this if I wanted to leave my birthday blank (yeah, gay, I know, pssshh) so I just left it. Now that we have vBulletin my head just hurts

havent slept in a while

lurrr

so, the first machine to pass the Turing test is a spam bot for a marketing firm

sounds about right