Remember the ‘Semantic Web’?
Don't you get fed up with the alphabet soup of tech terms that people introduce into our daily conversation?
It gets worse …they then go on to use terms that most people can’t understand to ‘explain’ what they are talking about!
And even when we do get simple language it still doesn’t get there … because we essentially use product descriptions and features and don’t describe the benefits to ordinary people.
Take Web 3.0 .. please!
If you read the interwebs you would think that a new religion came of age in 2021. Google Trends tells a different story.
So when you are next reading about Web 3.0, forget about Crypto, Algorithms, DIDs, Sovereign Identity, NFTs, Wallets, Coins, Blockchains - and all of the rest of it. Just know that IF we get Web 3.0 right … and it is far from clear we will - but if we do …. then it is the start of finally realizing the value that everybody expected back when this web thing started.
I thought this was an interesting little doohickey that you might find an interesting explanation - though I have some issues with a few of them.
Behavioural Advertising for example. God I hope not. I wish it read 'Intent Casting' - but that's an idea that doesn't seem to have arrived in the mainstream.
And despite Zuckerberg's best attempts Blogs are not going away.
But more importantly, some of the thinking is just BAU!
One of the most important things I would add is that Web 1.0 was 'pipes', Web 2.0 is really all about platforms. Web 3.0 is all about protocols. That's one of the People First Tenets!
An interesting list from Ryan Holiday
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Wake up early
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Focus on effort, not results
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Read every day
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Strict with yourself, forgiving of others
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Seek out challenges
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Stay a student
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Cut toxic people out of your life
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Think about death
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Focus on what you can control
If you are a member of Literal, this is a Micro Blog Reading Club you might want to join.
”She believed she was building a technology that would change the world. That’s our story,” defense lawyer Kevin Downey told the jury.”
‘That’s our story’ says it all.
Global investors profited from U.S. rental homes, foreclosure crisis.
The story is a specific case - but I’m pretty sure this is just the tip of the iceberg - and not just in the U.S.A.
Global investors profited from U.S. rental homes, foreclosure crisis.
The story is a specific case - but I’m pretty sure this is just the tip of the iceberg - and not just in the U.S.A.
It also reads as if in the past. It’s still going on!
It just occurred to me that people who check on ‘reading’ in the Micro Blog timeline using 📚 might have missed the call for people interested in a Reading Club … so ‘belt and braces’ it is!
DAOs will be the future of online communities in five years
I like the idea and it makes sense. I am just confused by the title.
Surely if DAOs will be the future of online communities in five years, they are the future of online communities now?
3 hours and 9 minutes - for a single podcast!
An Unsent Email
I created a Numbers file from the information you sent over.
I exported it to Excel and sent that file to you.
Now you have the file, you can change the Excel.
I can’t change the Excel file, because I don’t intend to pay Microsoft to use a product that is inferior to what I already have installed.
BTW - you have a Mac, and so you also have Numbers.
Tell me again why you pay to use a product that is not as good as the free product you already have on your computer?
.. and don’t tell me because you are doing serious number crunching … I have seen the spreadsheets you created!
/J
2 Years ago today we arrived in Auckland, New Zealand to start a 100 day tour of the country.
And tour we did.
From Cape Reinga to Invercargill. (Sorry Stewart Island)
From Fiordland to Napier (Still not managed Gisborne)
BUT
We are still here. That’s a different story!
“Mark Twain and I are in very much the same position. We have to put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.”
Endless Repetition or Infinite Variety?
If you want endless repetition (in your life), see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.
What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over.
You can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. With a long relationship, things die then are rekindled, and that shared process of rebirth deepens the love. It’s hard work, though, and a lot of people run at the first sign of trouble. You’re with this person, and suddenly you look like an asshole to them or they look like an asshole to you — it’s unpleasant, but if you can get through it you get closer and you learn a way of loving that’s different from the neurotic love enshrined in movies. It’s warmer and has more padding to it.
This Week’s Words
Why isn’t there a good thermometer app?
In fact why isn’t ‘temperature now’ just part of (say) the Weather App?
OK - enough time wasted … spent … on micro blog today.
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🎵🎶🎼 ‘The Art of Losing’ by ‘The Anchoress’ opens with ‘Moon Rise and reminds me of a Stackridge track from 1974 - God Speed The Plough
(Both links are Apple Music)
What do you think? Am I nuts?
“Standardisation Is So Hard”
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