What's coming
The Guardian gives us its Survival guide 2003:
the 25 technologies and notions we think hold most promise over the next year. From the evolutionary to the revolutionary, the trivial to the very serious, these are 25 of the trends we'll be watching closely over the next 12 months.
These include:
At home
- Mobile games
- Mobile photos
Work
- Bluetooth
- Interaction anxiety
a worry about managing interactions with people, content and devices, a fear of being cut off from the Network
Ideas
- Social Software
- Wi-Fi
- The return of William Gibson
Websites
- Googlewords
- Clay Shirky
- Gossip sites
- Moblogging
- Whuffie
Why do so many people do so much for free? What do people get out of it? Whuffie - that's what. Coined by writer Cory Doctorow for his novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Whuffie embodies respect, karma, mad-props; call it what you will, the web runs on it
And now you know as much cool stuff as I do.
Or possibly more.
Comments
Wow. I don't know what half of those terms mean. I'm out of the jargon loop. This is giving me interaction anxiety.
Are Mobile Photos like the paintings and snapshots in Harry Potter? That would be way cool! {g}
I'm going to go do a search on Moblogging now. I think I intuit its meaning, but I must know for sure.
Posted by: TM(tm) | January 6, 2003 08:11 AM
On mobile photos--I think they just mean camera phones. But moving Harry Potter pictures would be better.
Somewhere (apparently not here) I blogged the guy blogging his marathon run while he was running it--that's moblogging. Soon we'll be like Al Franken when he used to be portable satellite reporting live guy--and we will fall over a lot from all the equipment on our head.
Posted by: debco | January 6, 2003 11:01 AM
Ah, okay! I thought moblogging was a mob of people posting to one blog (a la Slashdot), or a whole bunch of blogs posting on the same topic at the same time (a la the Buffy Blogburst).
I think I'll sit out moblogging and wait for simstim, where people record their experiences for virtual-reality reexperiencing.
Posted by: TM(tm) | January 7, 2003 12:10 PM
I suppose they call that group blogging, but that doesn't really mush down into a cooler word.
I'm pretty sure no one would want to re-experience my life via virtual reality. Maybe I could fake my experiences so they look cooler than they are, sort of VR as PR (pretend reality, though it could be public relations too).
Posted by: debco | January 7, 2003 06:10 PM