Citadel of the Blogs The Inbox of the Internet (really)

lol: getting into facebook lately I wish we had had that when i was an undergrad. damn if that wouldn’t have made my social life a hoot.

apparently this is not an uncommon reaction: “Clay Shirky, a 42-year-old professor of new media at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, who has studied these phenomena since 1993, has a theory about that response. “Whenever young people are allowed to indulge in something old people are not allowed to, it makes us bitter. What did we have? The mall and the parking lot of the 7-Eleven? It sucked to grow up when we did! And we’re mad about it now.” People are always eager to believe that their behavior is a matter of morality, not chronology, Shirky argues. “You didn’t behave like that because nobody gave you the option.””

i disagree with the relative ranking but support the overall picture of faces presented here–literally a la mug shots of the the 50 Most Important People on the Web

one of my favorite star trek voyager episodes was the voyage into the future only to discover there that historians had gotten half-truths right about our stalward heroes. it was ironic in that it was fictional and spoke truth since it is already set in the future. so it was a futuristic backward look at the future. got it?

anyhoo– in the same vein (yeah right!), here is a reverse parody of a futuristic topic: a helpdesk at the turn of the printing press)