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Total Commercialization Awareness

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-for-your-own-good,-consumer dept.

jjohnston writes "Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003: Total Commercialization Awareness. Includes: Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out, and pets: the new white meat. Cute ..." That's so 1999.

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  1. What would have been interesting... by somebaudy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They don't make predictions about Salon's fate in 2003.
    Will they sell out?
    Will they bite the dust and go 404?
    I've read so much about their financial problems that I'm surprised to hera they're still around.

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  2. One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other... by limekiller4 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    michael writes:
    jjohnston writes "Salon just posted its technology and business predictions for 2003: Total Commercialization Awareness. Includes: Al-Qaida online, Slashdot sells out, and pets: the new white meat. Cute ..." That's so 1999.

    The "that's so 1999" Slash article you linked to is about Slash going IPO. The Salon blub reads:

    The popular discussion site for fans of open source software will disclose that it's perilously close to bankruptcy and needs to make all Slash code proprietary in order to survive. Slashdot regulars will rebel, and some will attempt to set up alternative discussion sites -- but Slashdot's founder, Rob Malda, will sue under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent any copycat sites. When readers accuse the site of "monopolizing" all the vital discussions of the various ways of cooling your computer with liquid nitrogen, Justice Department officials will threaten prosecution of Sherman antitrust violations. But Slashdot will prevail, after hiring David Boies, litigator to the stars.

    Which, while satire, is quite a bit different, don't you think?

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  3. We'll always fnd a way around it!!! by mustangdavis · · Score: 4, Interesting
    For every 20 minutes on the Web, "viewers" will be required to download three minutes of ads


    Who ever wrote this was smoking crack!

    People will find a way around this! They will either find some tech way around it, or they will simply stop visiting sites that make you do that.

    I run a web site that rely's on ad revenue, but if these annoying forms of advertising don't come to an end, it could be the end of the Internet for everyone except big business. I know that there are VERY few sites that I would tolorate if they had annoying ads that "made" me do something.

    Honestly, I think that the person that wrote this was just looking to get a rise out of people. (He got one out of me) Hopefully he will wake people up about this BEFORE this kind of thing becomes reality. What happened to simple, NON-POP-UP banners? Yes, they didn't work well, but they got sites exposure! I make it a point NOT to visit sites with annoying ads .... and the people that play the games I run seem to do the same thing. Of all the clicks we get, 10% go to the traditional, non-pop-up ads, 89.99% to the skyscraper banners, and 0.01% go to pop-up ads. NO ONE clicks on our pop-up ads because they are annoyng ... and the people want them to go away! Now if only everyone else would be smart enough to follow suite of a few thousand MPOG players ...

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  4. Prediction #1 by NitsujTPU · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Total Information Awareness, the Defense Department's system to record and monitor everything Americans do, will fail to detect coming attacks on the United States -- but TIA will find new life as an invaluable opposition-research tool for political campaigns. For example, Democrats will aim the system at Trent Lott in an effort to discover "patterns" of Republicans with questionable histories on race relations -- and TIA will attempt to predict the next time one of them will make a racist gaffe. This will cause Republicans to call for TIA to be immediately dismantled, but Democrats will accuse them of being soft on terrorism.

    Ok, so, I can buy the democrats using the Republicans' own tool against them, but HONESTLY, you think that they'll really use REPUBLICAN party cries that we should have more big brother monitoring, more warfare, more so forth? For them to make that statement would require a change in platform that is distinctly toward the right. They'll use the tool, they'll maybe make predictions, they won't dare tell their constituents that we need more wiretaps... if they did that they might as well change their party mascot to the elephant ;-)