I Saw it on the Interweb

Random Thoughts:

• When did Interweb become a hip/cool/funny synonym for Internet? I first saw it when Moby made a joke reference to how confused people may goof up their references. "Hey, I am going to go surf my email." "Wow, have you checked out that Interweb lately?" Shit like that.
• Since starting to update my website with some regularity, I am getting far more hits. About a quarter are search engine bots though, which leads me to believe that search engines are horribly inefficient. Think about a human-based analogy: I want to see what everyone I know in the world is up to, so I call each person at least every other day. Wanting to save on cell phone charges (hah!), I only talk to them for ~2 seconds each. Rinse, repeat. Wackiness.
• Before blogs it was personal websites. I met my wife through one. Seven years ago it was a neat thing to have. It showed you were part of the techno-literati. Now, it's blogs, and it has been simplified so more people can participate, for better or for worse (which I am sure you are nodding now, wondering why am I reading this drivel?) My prediction for five years from now? plogs, or photo logs. We'll all post pictures regularly to share with friends and family that picture we took of the guy on the train eating the full stack of pancakes. Oh I can't wait.
• Required Reading: Society is dead, we have retreated into the iWorld. Oddly prophetic.

I Saw it on the Interweb

Random Thoughts:

• When did Interweb become a hip/cool/funny synonym for Internet? I first saw it when Moby made a joke reference to how confused people may goof up their references. "Hey, I am going to go surf my email." "Wow, have you checked out that Interweb lately?" Shit like that.
• Since starting to update my website with some regularity, I am getting far more hits. About a quarter are search engine bots though, which leads me to believe that search engines are horribly inefficient. Think about a human-based analogy: I want to see what everyone I know in the world is up to, so I call each person at least every other day. Wanting to save on cell phone charges (hah!), I only talk to them for ~2 seconds each. Rinse, repeat. Wackiness.
• Before blogs it was personal websites. I met my wife through one. Seven years ago it was a neat thing to have. It showed you were part of the techno-literati. Now, it's blogs, and it has been simplified so more people can participate, for better or for worse (which I am sure you are nodding now, wondering why am I reading this drivel?) My prediction for five years from now? plogs, or photo logs. We'll all post pictures regularly to share with friends and family that picture we took of the guy on the train eating the full stack of pancakes. Oh I can't wait.
• Required Reading: Society is dead, we have retreated into the iWorld. Oddly prophetic.