My Love Hate Relationship with Web 2.0, Part I
Preamble
The other day I broke down and set up a MyBlogLog account again.
Some of you familiar with The Simpsons will recognize in the Avatar the familiar hooded shadow of Mr. X, who also owned a web site.
If you get over to the MyBlogLog account really quickly you can catch a glimpse of Niknik. No wait, I’ve put her down as a contact. Now you don’t have to run over, you can just walk. This should be good for ratings.
By the way, Niknik’s content is also quite nice, not just her contents. (Hands — stop — do — not — link — to — red — dress — photo).
I’m going to start reading her religiously if I break down and start reading anyone religiously.
Reading sometimes gets in the way of what we’re trying to do.
Amble
I’ve been breaking down and checking out lots of Web 2.0 places lately, trying to stay current and broaden my horizons beyond the major bleeding edge search engines like AltaVista.
I really like my del.icio.us account. It’s a neat research tool. Hat tip again to Dave Smith. Heck, I even signed up again for ActiveRain recently, after spending three weeks wondering where the darned exit button was.
I’m not sure what got me going back to MyBlogLog. I think it was probably watching the stream of people on other bloggers MyBlogLog widget and wondering if I have a stream of people, too. Sure enough, I do, but I don’t have the widget installed so you can’t watch yourself be an eddy in the stream of people here unless you’re over there somewhere. And if you’re name’s not Eddy, I don’t know how this is going to work.
OK, that’s partly it. But a bigger reason is that I wanted my head to show up on your blog so you might follow the Mr. X head back here and read me — which is partly an SEO goal and partly a social approbation goal. (I say “approbation” instead of “approval” inasmuch as the pervasive confusion of pedantry with prose may earn me another blogological brownie point).
Those of you who read about my recent excitement at having a fan know that I’m pretty easily amused. Now it would appear that I not only have a real life attorney fan and perhaps one or two more that one of my agents reminded me of recently, I also have (in MyBlogLog, now) three admirers and sixteen members. An admirer in my blog log is the object form of “fan”. I think the point was to have another word for it. Sic semper pedantis.
In fact, one of my admirers sent me a “private message” (isn’t that fun), asking me to elaborate on my love hate relationship with Web 2.0, and that’s how this article was born.
But with all this preamble, we’ve hardly scratched the psychotherapeutic surface of the emotional thingie-under-the-scratched-surface of my love-hate relationship with Web 2.0, have we?
No problem. Add “Part I” to the title, and hey, presto: series of articles.
