Sorry but this was just to damn funny to pass up posting.
Way to go Google, and ad.ly
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There is no such thing as permanence on the web
Will all the web services we use today be around in 10, 20, or 50 years from now?
Some might be around in ten, a few might last twenty but very few will last beyond that.
For those who do it will be because they continue to provide a needed service that has grown with our technology. For the most part though all those words and ideas will fade away.
We like to believe that all our contributions around the web and on our blogs will last forever. Unfortunately this is nothing but a dream that we will take to our graves.
Take a look around.
Twitter: even now everything you post is gone after two weeks after you wrote it.
Forums: totally at the discretion of the forum owner. Once they decide to shut it down your contributions are gone.
Blogs: our blog content only lasts as long as our domains do. Stop paying those fees either because of financial problems or death and at some point all that content is gone.
I have talked about this before and more recently Dave Winer brought up the subject
Fact is, most of the writing we’re doing now, no matter what tools we use, will disappear, probably a lot sooner than you think.
Will all these treasures be missed?
No.
For all that we like to believe that our words and thoughts will live beyond us the reality is that they will be replaced many times over.
As much as we might want to build an electronic Library of Alexandria the reality is that digital memories are a lot more fragile than we like to think they are.
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The real war for control of technology and the Web
Age of privacy discussions are pointless when compared to the real war going on.
It isn’t pretty and glamorous to be involved in but its impact will be deeper than any open data argument.
This is a war that crosses national boundaries and yet not a whimper is being heard. This is a war that is subverting national policies but the voices of cyber Paul Reveres are ignored as we play FarmVille. Countries from Canada to New Zealand and Australia to Costa Rica are facing everything from outright economic pressure to underhanded backroom dealings signed away in NDAs.
Under the acronym of ACTA landing boats are bringing lawyers, trade organizations and promises of global ostracization. This is the war that the entertainment industry is doing everything it can to keep under the radar.
Yet this industry is seeking to forever change how we use technology and the Internet. Primary among its weapons is the hijacking of a growing number of countries and their laws surrounding copyrights. Primary among its ways to affects these laws is political pressure by members of political parties who they have been financing for years.
It is those politicians who are threatening the economic viability of countries like Costa Rica using threats of blocking US markets for Costa Rican sugar – unless they agree to radically changing their copyright laws.
Canada is being assaulted on two fronts in a war that wants our country to acquiesce our copyright laws. From the US and ACTA to the European Union and their CETAEU our country is being told to change our laws that have been called some of the fairest copyright laws in the world.
This is a war that if lost will make concerns about privacy seem petty and archaic. It is a war if lost will make Google and China’s little dance seem like pointless. It is a war that lives in the background and has no glamour or cute buzzwords to gain fame with.
It is a war I fear we will lose before we realize that we need to fight. But then we’ll always have things like FarmVille to fall back on eh.
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My women of the Web
As part of making up my list of people I want to be a part of my “10 Questions” interview series (which will be returning this month) I realized that there were more women making up the list than men.
Sure we all know who Kara Swisher is or that the cupcake queen is Marissa Meyer but for the most it seems that when it comes to the tech field and social media it is the guys that get all the attention.
So I figured I’d pass along some of the women rockstars that are out there because if you aren’t reading them; or following them on Twitter you are missing out.
Marketing
HPC – Otherwise known as Tara Hunt (Twitter)
Michelle’s Blog – Michelle Greer (Twitter)
Liz Strauss / Successful Blog(gers) – Liz Strauss (Twitter)
Marketing Mystic – Mia Dand (Twitter)
Social Media
Altitude Branding – Amber Naslund (Twitter)
Penelope Trunk (Twitter)
Suze Muse (Twitter)
Technology
Profy – Svetlana Gladkova
Go2WEB20 – Orli Yakuel (Twitter)
SheGeeks – Corvida Raven (Twitter)
And just because you should
Sex and the 405 (Twitter) – this isn’t the most work safe blog but it is definitely interesting or as their tagline goes “What your newspaper would look like
if it had a sex section.”. While there are a couple of men of the staff roster the majority of writers are women.
Cleavage – Kelly Diels (Twitter) – while those with tender sensibilities (read no sense of ha-ha) might not like Kelly’s writing I look forward to each of her posts.
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A Universal Address Book – one contact list to rule them all
Look at anything we do on the web today and what is the one common thread that weaves through it all?
Our contacts.
Yet it is this one simple thing that is the biggest mess and most duplicated of our data,
Email clients, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, web forum memberships, and any of the other dozen or so services we belong to that has some form of contact lists. They are all treated as proprietary property. Our contacts in a locked up format.
If we really want to be serious about data portability this is where it needs to start. There needs to be a single Address Book standard that all applications must support. Just as browser support HTML email clients need to support a common contact list format. Just as MP3 players support a universal audio format so to should Social Media services support a common contact list format.
Louis Gray touched on this idea over the weekend but this is something that has to go beyond just talk and move to a real standard. I don’t want Twitter owning my contacts. I don’t want my email client telling me that I can’t use that information in another service or application.
If we want to be really serious about data portability let’s start with the simple shit – give me my contacts where ever and however I want to use them. You want to talk open standards then start with the core of our life on the web – give me my contacts that are locked up in proprietary formats or some illusionary benevolent web service.
They’re my contacts – not yours. Give them back.
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I get mine back at all those slimy marketers on Twitter
Earlier today I had finally had enough of all the marketers and their following me just because I mentioned marketing in a message or a post here. I said at that point on Twitter that we needed some sort of hall of shame so the whole world could see their crap for what it is – crap.
After thinking on it for awhile I headed over to my favorite domain company NameCheap and started hunting for just the right combination of words for the domain I wanted. It took a little bit but I finally hit on it.
Now after a couple of hours work getting the pieces together I present to you:
This is where I will be posting some of the gems I get on a daily basis because my mother always taught this cranky old fart that it is good to share. So share I shall.
I’ll also be setting up an email addie for people to send in their favorite screen captures as well – so watch my Twitter stream for that in the next day or two.
Isn’t the Internet fun 
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