Will Anyone But Marketers Read It? thoughts on "Web 3.0"

MY god it's full of  douchebags! </Dave>   Social marketing types anyway. That's the fate the below entry from the Readwriteweb blog posits as being the likely result of our aggregate life-stream data.

Web 3.0 Might Be Really Stupid

The patterns of activity in that data offer a unique opportunity to learn about ourselves - individually, in groups and as a society. Unfortunately, that opportunity may not be taken advantage of. A better title of this post might be If Web 3.0 Is Poetry, Will Anyone But Marketers Read It?

Oh we'll be taken advantage of , as much as we allow anyway, for the chance to stick yet another piece of bling on our profile.Yet the "good" use of this aggregation as a kind of  silicon mirror of introspection poses larger questions.
I want software that will tell me: "On Wednesdays you tend to post messages a lot in the morning, despite the fact that you have a lot of meetings. You post a lot about your health,too. Is work making you feel unhealthy?"
Fan as I am of tech, sign me up for some dsp in my eyes and ears  please,  having the web look out for you as K.I.T.T would do for Michael Knight,is a service I wasn't looking forward to.Why?  Abuse potential seems the most obvious. Want to get paranoid?

"Hey look at the angry posts from Citizen 23  better bring them in for a nice chat and medication"    I'll take no thank you Alex, my droog, for $300.
 

 
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