Shelley Powers: You can see why the Kindle would have such appeal to me. To many people, really. We're this generations gypsies, modern day vagabonds; not really at home anywhere. Or maybe half at home everywhere. We can store all of our photos and our writing on laptops; movies on a portable hard drive; our music on a device no bigger than a deck of cards. Now we can do the same with our books, and never have to leave our cherished libraries behind, ever again." 

Want to see something really exciting? The new Blog Council has been setup for corporate bloggers, and - wait for it - they've published a press release. Doh! Remember, folks, it's not even user-generated content anymore - it's "consumer-generated content"! Way to go on the whole not getting it front. 

Like we didn't know this is how PR works. 

Web 2008 

Aral Balkan asks (and answers) about "Web 2008" and what technologies we are going to be using in the next year.

For me, it's all the things that are ramping up at the moment - OpenID, microformats, FOAF. On the XML front, I think it's time that we just shed all the other pointless schema formats and RELAX NG destroys everything.

What else is going to happen in 2008 on the Web? Well, I can predict the bad stuff better than the good stuff. People will still fob us off with proprietary solutions. They'll still try and use pragmatism to inject their values into standards. They'll still use scare quotes and "Upper Case" to bluff audiences into thinking the Semantic Web isn't real (Phew! That's not going to decimate our business model like RSS did!). In other words, people will still continue being all too human - only they'll find new and interesting technologies to assist in the process.

I'm a cynic. Perhaps you aren't. What are you thoughts on the next twelve months of Web technology?