The Great Facebook/Google War

Facebook and Google--one the upstart punk, the other the old guard--all powerful and impenetrable.

It also could be classified in this way: The Social Net vs the Computerized Net. People vs Machines.

Wired has a fascinating take on this battle, or perhaps properly this coming battle and definitely worth the read.

Myself, i'm inclined to think that this battle, if it ever really materializes, won't necessarily end with one on top of the other--could be they combine even...or they just carve out different parts of the pie and peacefully co-exist...to be continued...

my HuffPost Webby award...

acceptance speech is among the finalists.

"The Revolution has been digitized"

(by the way, the rules are that the speech has to be five words long)

Other ideas I had:
Newspapers aren't dead....jk ;)
The Internet isn't a truck
Proof: Internet...not a truck

If the speech could be six words then i'd go with:
Apparently, the Internet isn't a truck.

Self serving, I know...but in light of the Alaska connection this year and the power of Huffpost more generally, it actually seems like the best idea to me.

Web 2.0 and beyond...

A short but interesting article from RWW on what should happen next on the Web and where to go what with the economic recession and all...

It's also a good time to revisit one of the better articles on what Web 2.0 is--you can check it out here.

Friedman the Green...

as in greedy for the green stuff...

Check out this hilarious post by Matt Taibbi on the miserable train wreck that is Tom Friedman...

Why do certain people, e.g. Friedman, who get everything wrong about everything continue to make money telling us what they think about things? And why do people continue to buy their garbage? Can't we stuff guys like Friedman in the recycling bin and be done with them? Can't they ever get fired?