Web2.0 and Me: It’s Over

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 by Chantelle Oliver | 3 Comments » | Viewed 19930 times since 04/15, 1 so far today

Yes. That’s right. I’m saying it’s over. My love affair with the socialnets might have finally ended.

As CNN and phishing scams have piled on, the gloss has come off Twitter for me. Cloud computing is just another boring concentration of power. And the (white, male, monied) tech news ratface race is blisteringly tedious. It’s not that I am going to be quitting Twitter or the cloud: I’m writing this post in the cloud on Google Docs. But it’s all completely integrated into my life now. Like breathing. Tools that are available just aren’t really that sexy anymore. (more…)

 
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