A friend forwarded me a quote that I find particularly apt for my current state. Substitute “social media/Web2.0″ for music and current Web 2.0 buzzwords for the watchwords and good old Béla hits the nail on the head.
Recently I have felt so stupid, so dazed, so empty-headed that I have truly doubted whether I am able to write anything new anymore. All the tangled chaos that the music periodical vomit forth thick and fast about the music of today has come to weigh heavily on me: the watchwords, linear, horizontal, vertical, objective, impersonal polyphonic, homophonic, tonal, polytonal, atonal and the rest…
Well, not quite true… partly I am fed up with social media/Web 2.0 stuff bandied about all over the meedjaland, which is not a pretty sight. What with being ‘creative, ‘communicative’ and all front, the ad agency/comms crowd has mastered the lingo. Alas, ‘engagement’ in their mouth means ‘interactive campaign’ and we know what that means.. more evil Flash! And partly I have been hanging around some really clever geeks, which puts strain on any web evangelist.
So onwards in a distributed fashion. 
Alice Bachini-Smith
on Nov 13th, 2007
@ 18:02 pm:
and I come here for the sole purpose of making myself feel dumb…
Mark Sheldon
on Nov 14th, 2007
@ 13:34 pm:
There is a lot to be said for writing in normal language. Would Shakespeare have been spoilt by a Web2.0 environment?
Looking on the bright side the Asus EEE £230 compact laptop with Linux operating system as standard looks to be a rare glimpse of sanity in the IT world. A fine middle road between a PDA that is portable but to fiddly to use and a laptop that is too big, fragile, expensive & heavy to be truly portable.
If somebody tries to mug you for it, it is cheap enough to hit them with. If it comes loaded with Thunderbird as standard this may introduce the rest of the world to RSS – the ideal answer to periodic news subscription which for some reason is omitted from Microsoft Outlook.
Finally a possible replacement for the Psion 3a over 10 years old and not yet surpassed for real world usability.