No I have not fallen of the face of the earth. It’s just been a little busy of late. Hence no blogging for the last few weeks, sorry about that, but these things do happen from time to time. It’s never been about lack of topics, more the lack of time.
Mind you during this time I have been able to reflect on various things. One of which is the future direction of online social networking.
It’s really an old chestnut this one others in the field like Laurel Papworth, Stephen Collins and Matthew Hodgson have all commented at length. However the other day I ran smack bang into the adoption of Web 2.0 (much how I hate the term) by government. It seems to be at least on the table still with various levels of Government within Australia.
Now I have some ties to government but not a great deal. I wouldn’t say that I’m infused in the Government culture, but I still feel that I can comment on a few issues relating to Government and its adoption of web 2.0 and its social networking aspects.
Silly season is here: Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test, Andy Clarke wants the W3C CSS working group to rethink, Forbes releases the 25 top Web Celebrities for 2008. Yeap you can tell things are a little crazy, must be something in the air in relation to the season this time of year. Okay some of these items have a very serious side (IE8 and the CSS working group). But it is a little amazing how all these important issues and others tend to launch themselves at us just as we are preparing for a much earned break with family and friends.
Gary Barber
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