Warhol and Web 2

As Warhol noted in 1968 "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes".

Andy had the vision but we just lacked the mechanism. TaDa, and 40 years or so later to the rescue comes Web 2.0 with its plethora of wikis, blogs and social networking sites, so now you can exercise your underdeveloped - often white and bourgeois - mini-me from the comfort of Starbucks with your iBook.

Just imagine when the likes of Tesco and those "social sites" you and your "friends" "belong" to start to share data about you; think it won't happen, mugs. We have your mind and soul surrounded and our hands in your wallet. Fait accompli

Oh the price of fame!

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IIS Log Parser

Hey this is useful!

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You can fool some of the e-people some of the time

Just a quickie. We had the inevitable Web 2.0 "conference" recently and as to be expected there was much hoo-ha regarding Facebook by the usual e-vangelistos. I wonder if they have actually read the good old Terms and Conditions in any detail as they pertain to User Content? Here they are:

"grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing"

Basically, as long as you use and have content on Facebook you grant them rights to do whatever they see fit with your, excuse me, your employer's intellectual property. Uh oh - time to get the lawyers in.

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