f/k/a . . .

Imagine you’re a geek-dude weblogger really into metadata,

and you want to impress a sweet young thing.

 

    You say:

“My site reviews the best

sites that filter sites that pick

up RSS feeds from sites about

Gourd Pottery.”

How does your heart’s desire respond? 

 

Jen Sorensen, of Slowpoke Comics fame, knows. 

Click to find out the answer.  You’ll have to decide

for yourself whether this is a match made in cyber-

heaven.

“Tiny check” Then, click to see the all four

“Maladies of the Information Age,”

which include– in addition to Meta-

mania — Googlitis, Archivaholism,

and Compulsive News Binging.

 

   Slowpoke is one more reason I always

   pick up my weekly Metroland.

 

  Those who came here for socially-significant

and/or legal issues, should check out I/P lawyer

Paul Rapp’s column “Irreconcilable Differences,”

which applauds French efforts to force ”every

maker and distributor of digital media to make

details of copy-protection schemes available to

competitors, and to force interoperability among

digital formats.” (Metroland, Volume 29 - Number

13 - March 30, 2006)

 

 

update (March 31, 2006): The thoughtful Editor of Blawg Review

sends along this cautionary tale: The Man She Forgot to Google..

 

blind date tomorrow –
will she
Yahoo! me tonight?

 

         dagosan at simply senryu