HOW LONG BEFORE THIS GETS BLOCKED…?
February 27th, 2006
Technology is running so fast ahead of the dinosaur corporations that they’re reduced to playing whack-a-mole as users figure out the real implications of what they found. The memes are flashing faster and faster. Jeff Jarvis is in Europe right now and a friend of his dropped an important communications tip. Writes Jarvis:
I”m in London and thanks to advice from Ken Rutkowski, I just did something neat with my telephony: I forwarded my U.S. mobile to my Skype account and, in turn, forward that to a UK mobile phone, so my family and colleagues can call my U.S. number locally and I will pay local rates here.
The only way anyone will ever be able to control the Internet will be to kill it. The Communists tried something similar in the Soviet Union when they set about smashing every press that wasn’t controlled by the Party. What resulted was Samizdat, hand-written publications that were circulated for years among those who wanted to know what was going on.
My Soundtrack: Wet Book Of Matches by Staggering Statistics on WOXY.
Hi Jeff,
Well, considering that 12 Asian kids–Japanese and Chinese, whose blogs are not Western-reader friendly–occupy the much-vanuted, much-debated, much-overdiscussed Technorati 100, I’d say there’s definitely some sort of shift going on, and that it’s not just our technology, but our Western love of top-down communication and punditry and business models and monetizing *every* last pleasure in life that’ll probably *get* us eventually.
:-)
Tish
just a thought.
Shalom Tish,
I confess I’ve never looked at the Technorati 100 until this morning. One of the first things I noticed was it’s software must be a little hinkey. There were blogs on the list whose tags said they hadn’t been updated in days (in one case 61 days) when I know for certain at least one (BuzzMachine)had been updated several times in the past 24 hours.
I think it would be a great wakeup call for Americans if non-Americans took over the list.
B’shalom,
Jeff
Jeff,
you’ve never looked at the Technorati 100?!?! Don’t you obsess over your stats and the A-list?? and you have the nerve to call yourself a blogger???;-)
Believe it or not, there’s so much made of the Technorati 100 that it’s kind of sickening… and yet, as you noticed, it’s far from a perfect counting/ranking system (I know it hasn’t counted all of Snarkaholic’s links)
and,yes, it would be an amazing wake-up call if top-down communication worshipping Americans lost their toe-hold…very interesting indeed…
:-)
T.
Shalom Tish,
No. I’m not much interested in Top 10 Lists (even when I get named to one). I seldom find much of interest at the top of lists.
B’shalom,
Jeff