Wired- "futurism has no future,"

The bubble-era vision of a utopian Internet is dented and dirty. Technophobic refuseniks are likely to carry out violent resistance, and they may have good reason: Out-of-control technology is a distinct risk.

 

The erosion of our future?

 The future of the Internet lies not with institutions but with individuals. The Net itself will recede into the background. If you're under 21, you likely don't care much about any supposed difference between virtual and actual, online and off.

 

Erosion of self

...only to have my paperback writing slow down as I began to spend uncontrollable amounts of time surfing and blogging. This experience is both grand and problematic. It reflects not two extremes but the slider-bar that is my everyday life.

 

...development doesn't surprise me. Frankly, I saw it coming.   Read full from - Bruce Sterling here

 

Green IT Blog's - They cleaerly never heard of me ;-)

Ever heard of Green IT Blog's?  

ecoIron (http://ecoiron.blogspot.com), is a blog discussing all aspects of green computing.

They've been around for almost as long as EcoGeek and covering a lot of the same stories. ecoIron links to a cool site (http://green500.org/Home.html) that measures the performance of various super-computers not by performance, but by performance per watt. The difference per machine is astonishing. Though, what's not surprising, is how comparatively inefficient the older machines are. If you're an EcoGeek reader with an eye for some high-quality IT ecogeekery, I suggest becoming an ecoIron reader as well.

The bloat of the blogs...

Technorati founder David Sifry continues his excellent quarterly reports on the "State of the Blogosphere" -- a statistical roundup of the blogs seen through the lens of Technorati's gigantic blog-scraper. Here's the big picture:

* Technorati is now tracking more than 57 Million blogs.
* Spam-, splog- and sping-fighting efforts at Technorati are paying dividends in terms of the reduction of garbage in our indexes, even if it does seem to impact overall growth rates.
* Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.
* About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day, again down slightly quarter-over-quarter but probably due in part to spam fighting efforts.
* About 4% of new splogs get past Technorati's filters, even if it is only for a few hours or days.
* There is a strong correlation between the aging and post frequency of blogs and their authority and Technorati ranking.
* The globalization of the blogosphere continues. Our data appears to show both English and Spanish languages are a more universal blog language than the other two most dominant language, Japanese and Chinese, which seem to be more regionally localized.
* Coincident with a rise in blog posts about escalating Middle East tensions throughout the summer and fall, Farsi has moved into the top 10 languages of the blogosphere, indicating that blogging continues to play a critical role in debates about the important issues of our times. Link (VIA-boingboing.com)