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They revolutionized your email:

Then they changed the way you shop:

Then they realized nobody cared. Or do they? Does anyone remember VRML? I didn’t until I saw a posting about the kinset shopping experience and realized people were still trying to take the look of the ‘meat space’ into the virtual space.

My professional opinion is: that is stupid.

Elegantly put, I know, but putting an elaborate 3D interface between me and the information I want isn’t a benefit. Does this appeal to the second life users out there? The kids maybe?

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Not that I can tell. I would say apps like these are a key indication that there is too much money being poured into the internet.

Despite my complaints about the Rodgers service I receive, I decided to stay on with them.

What does this matter?

Well with Rodgers (less than stellar) upgrade incentive I hooked myself up with a new BlackBerry pearl.

I’m curenetly on the bus, on my way home from the office. Overall i’m pretty impressed with how well wordpress works in the blackberry browser.

After about two weeks on the keyboard I’m getting faster and am well on my way to cramped thumbs and anxiety attacks.

Anyway, sorry for the lack of substance in this post. I just wanted to see how it would work out.

Onward!

From the city that brought you this guy, here’s a shot from lunch today:

Caption suggestions welcome. Note: There were children around, he was the only one at the stop.

So hip in fact that we’re doing wild style! Meaning it’s part of one of my work projects and I’ve spent some hours reading, trying to get into the “tag space” and understand where the world is at on the subject.

Of course I had to check out some implementations of the concept so Flickr, de.licio.us, ma.gnolia and a bunch of other tagging sites have crossed my screen.

If you’re new to the concept and looking for a little more insight I found these articles that might help to understand, at a high level, where tagging is at and where it might need to go.

• Ontology Overview - Musing on Value of tags for organization
• Cognitive Analysis of Tagging - Insight into how the mind process behind reading and tagging a piece of content
• Automated Tag Clustering - Discussion on making sense of large sets of tagged data
• Database Schemas for tagging - the geekdown on how a database could be set up to manage tagging in an application. Honestly, parts of this were over my head, but it may be useful if you’re looking to program