ok, you got me. a wtf story i find worth linking.

Do you know the Microsoft Word Lesson? It’s that an old version of Word from a few years ago has more features than any of us could possibly need to use. We all use 10% of the app at most, and yes though it’s all a different 10%, there comes a point when more features isn’t a bonus any more ...

... the social services or the new whiz bang websites where the product is the way something is done, and not what is being done? (beattie)

¿how many people would find the social (calender) stuff cool, if the would have to pay for it right away?

playing with rss to expose myself to all that "social" stuff and more. i can't avoid the feeling of: oh my, just more of the same. it's not worth it. i maybe know now who had it first. fine. but it doesn't give me anything, just the proof that i read it first at digg or tech.memeorandum or ars technica or information week or some business sites or when it appeared on old media digital reservations or ... it's easy to fall into this habit, sure. but does it take into account that taste differ? no.

leave me alone with that recommendations, because it also just brings forth more of the same. he had it, i have it, blablabla. you haven't heard about it? sure you can sit on your desk and screen these feeds the whole day long, but in the end it is just copy and paste and plane boring. having a community as gatekeepers doesn't make life better or more 'democratic', as even some tv people try to make me believe. hey this link is new and fresh equals beta! maybe i have to apologise that i didn't link it when it was alpha.

all those things are far away to help me find a corn of value. maybe swarm theory applied on ss(oftware) just wants to tell me this: it's the beemaster in the end who gets all the honey, not the collectors who were told its soo cool to join the swarm. aal, "andere arbeiten lassen" - as a friend said - is the acronym that drives this hype. i am out of this - ähh, should i use once at only one of these %&$ keywords: ¿echochamber?

and for all these xaja driven reports. at least there is, actually a surprising spot on the map, a cio magazine, that added a valuable note to it: sit down, take a deep breath and start to think ...

2005 - 2006. jeeves says good by - after more than 10 years on duty.