Wired was right. The web's dead. Now there's proof

I forced myself through the whole 60 minutes. The strange thing was, despite knowing the end is nigh there was no indication when it was going to tragically disintergrate.

Exactly Brian.

I expect a flurry of products coming out showing people how to avoid this impending disaster, I also strongly suspect most if it will be nothing new. :rolleyes:

I loved the bit where he said something like...

...The waters are rising...

...You're either gonna DROWN,

Or learn to swim....For 97 bucks a month.

I think I was sick in my mouth at that point.

I'm even more amazed that having generated all that publicity shutting his blog down, he's now opened it again. :rolleyes:

Fernando Goes Bananas On the Internet!

News at 10.

LOL My bananas may be on the run too.



In recent weeks, we have heard that the following items were dead: the web, google, facebook, youtube, and others.

What is the common argument for each? "Traffic is diminishing."

These things are being said even though google, facebook and youtube remain the three most visited websites on the Internet.

Dead or dying?

The need to create drama is often demonstrated by people, who feel powerless in their lives, trying to gain power over a dramatic story that they only wish were true.

My wife got a phone call recently from a friend, who had heard from my dad's widow (not my mom) that my wife and I were getting a divorce. I find it curious how she would actually know whether that was true or not, since no one in my family has spoken to her since the will was settled and finalized. :rolleyes:

Yes, my dad married her, but no one else could stomach her. LOL

The point is that she has no power in my life, so she is happy to try to attempt to gain power, by "creating" drama in my life. She is powerless, and trying to gain power over others, by creating some kind of drama for others to respond.

As anyone familiar with the stock market knows, all businesses experience fluctuation up and down. At any one time, all businesses on the planet are either growing or in decline, within a single day, week, month or year.

But the future of a business is determined less by the results it generates in a single day, and more by the trend line that shows the peaks and troughs over the longer business cycle.

OP: During the current cycle, smart phones are making gains against the Internet, but the Internet remains much larger and will continue to remain much higher in the long term.

Newspapers are fairing far worse than the Internet, and from what I hear, newspapers are only in a downward trend, but far from dead. The newspaper industry is still a multi-billion dollar industry with revenues greater than they had in 1983 (Advertising Expenditures - Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century).

That does not sound very dead to me...

That reminds me John, for years here people have said "Oooh don't eat eggs, the yolks full of cholesterol, I saw it in a study".

Turns out that study was done by a bunch of breakfast cereal manufacturers. The trouble is they actually pulled it off, so instead of eggs, we eat cereal high in salt drenched in milk. :rolleyes:

Yawn....yawn....yawn.

Chicken Little: The sky is falling.
Annoyed Citizen: Get out of the way you're blocking the TV.

I think I shall also decline Ryan's offer.

Yeah ... and it's so portable. I don't carry my laptop everywhere I go but I do my phone. At night I like to take it to bed and read news and Twitter ... and of course, play Angry Birds.

Would it ever cut down my use of my computer and laptop? No, of course not, but I do use it a lot to access the web and play around with apps.

I was in Angry Birds and a merchant acct ad came up. I clicked on it and signed up and got the account. Actually, I didn't like the service afterwards and canceled, it but I do click on ads that look interesting.

And therein lies the big weight loss conspiracy... companies funding research, to get biased results, to use for marketing a better solution.. and it works.

No wonder people are so confused about how to stay healthy and lose weight.

I think they're getting "the web" confused with search and desktop usage. Not sure how they're confusing it, but hey.

Search is in decline...with social media, apps, networks and referrals on the rise. Laptop usage is being caught up by smartphones.

But the web will always be the backbone, no matter what face you put on it.