Happy kiss!
Originally uploaded by Miss Amandy
I finally uploaded a few of our wedding photos. Click through to see the rest. :) Hopefully I’ll be able to get some more uploaded, but for now these will have to do!
Like many other information-craving internet addicts, I always wind up buying into the internet / blogosphere trends that I promise myself I won’t buy into. I’m sure you know a few of them – the trends that aren’t really bad things, but they just happen so quickly and gain such a cult-like following that it almost makes you sick to imagine yourself as one of “those fanatics”.
One such trend is the “Getting Things Done” productivity / “life-hack” / way of life that has a super-devoted geek fan-base, due to its simplistic why-didn’t-I-think-of-that principles. I spent about an hour researching it one day last week, got excited reading all these success stories and looking at all the neat tools and gadgets that would support the method, and I bought into it. I’m a bit sad to say that I took to it about like any other trend that carries such high promises and expectations – it didn’t really last even a week. Not to say it’s a bad system, or to doubt all the hardcore believers out there, but it just didn’t work for me. I’m not going to post any links here – just Google “Getting Things Done” and you’ll find your fair share of material. Many other examples of trends I never wanted to be a part of can be summed up in one phrase: “Social Networks”. While I’ve never had enough time in the day to become anywhere near addicted to Myspace or Facebook, I have occasionally spent more time browsing around that I’d like to admit.
Anyway, my real reason for bringing this up was to talk about Web 2.0. While it didn’t happen overnight, it carries with it the same fanaticism and concurrent skepticism. I guess the funny thing about Web 2.0 is that most of the skepticism is not around the actual idea of Web 2.0, but typically more around the fact that there is a term for it. Well, I won’t argue about it. I have been on the skeptical end (”It’s just slick interfaces and tags. What gives it the right to claim a new version number?”), and somewhat recently have come to the conclusion that I actually like having a term to describe the newer trend in web development. After all, having a name for it sort of solidifies it and makes it describable. I like Paul Graham’s Article about Web 2.0, as it explained to me what I didn’t understand – why I really like all this Web 2.0 stuff. Some of you may find the article interesting. Others may not.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Web 2.0 term, and don’t want to read that long article about it, this site is a listing of hundreds of examples of it. I think you’ll catch on if you just click around. Smooth interfaces (Flash or AJAX), tagging and searching content, community-driven, no banner ads, pretty colors, etc. It’s all pretty cool in my book; definitely a trend I’ve bought into.
Speaking of Web 2.0 sites, there are 16,483 people ahead of me in the Ravelry invitation queue. I plan to spend the waiting period knitting and crocheting up a storm of cool products so that I’ll have something to show for myself.