Nefangled contraptions and their gimmickry

nobody@vox.com(Graye) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:28:46 -0700

This Vox business is all fancy and whatnot, in that sort of high-tech, soon-to-be-tacky style they call Web 2.0. Seriously. Give it five to ten years; it'll look like everything stylized from the 70s did. The seventies, at least when it came to design, had very bad style.

Initial observations about this Vox affair:

(props for giving me buttons to press instead of html)
The sideline ad offers me "girlfriend style horoscopes on my cell phone". What this promises is puzzling. Do they refer to a keen sense of style? Odd, annoying quirks that are simultaneously maddening and attractive? Homecooked meals, or wild nights in Tijuana? I feel that their targeting and advertising is off, here.
It's a bit cluttered, this interface. It took me a while to find out how to post; that's a bad sign, because I jack into an interface like Case, the best decker there ever was, before the Yakuza got him.
That reference was also Web 2.0.
Audio? Video? Books? Collections? This is not futurity.
Otherwise, I highly suspect I'll ignore this until all the kids do it and I get tired of HTML on the Livejournal.

Oh, the Livejournal; yes, if you needed to read the main blog, you'd go to this link right here, wouldn't you?

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Nefangled contraptions and their gimmickry