Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its second Future of the Internet survey, with experts and pundits broadly agreeing that by 2020:

A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a “flattening” world.
Humans will remain in charge of technology, even as more activity is automated and “smart agents” proliferate. However, a significant 42% of survey …read the rest of this article

Sorry for another list, but I seem to have run out of semi-profound thoughts for this week about Web 2.0 and social media. Instead, the old standby of weird and interesting things I found from my site statistics this morning. I don’t have an enormous amount of faith in these programs. My host runs two, awstats and Webalizer, which manage …read the rest of this article

I like Flock, the social web browser. The integration with blogs, photo-sharing and online bookmarking sites is really well done. And the design looks fantastic. Having a built-in RSS reader is a great bonus and miles ahead of Firefox’s Live Bookmarks or the weird and unintuitive use of feeds in Thunderbird or Opera. So am I moving from Firefox? No …read the rest of this article

Online world Second Life is to have its own business magazine, SL Business. A flurry of magazines have been launched around ebay to cater to those wishing to create their own business around the auction site. In a similar way, members of the Second Life community are keen to join the likes of Anshe Chung, who reputedly earns in excess …read the rest of this article