Was listening to Iggy & The Stooges Search & Destroy in the car on the way to work this morning.I thought, if Iggy rewrote that today, having hung in a few social networks, done a bit of blogging and built himself a widget, he'd probably call it:
"Friend-recommend & Grow".
Heh heh.
So, over to you. What songs, book titles, films etc should be retitled for the networked world?
The Velvet Underground's 'I'm Waiting for my Man' could be retitled 'I'm not waiting for my man because he just twittered that he's been held up in Harlem as the dude with the gear is streaming live now from Union square where there a massive rickmob that's shut down the subway'
ReplyDeleteLOL! Knew you wouldn't be able to resist. Hope to see you tomorrow.
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ReplyDelete(with apologies to David Bowie)
Pushing through the media square
So many bloggers sighing
Newsfeed had just come over
We had five minutes left to post in
Techmeme guy wept and told us
Web was really dying
Cried so much his keyboard was wet
Then I knew he was not lying
I heard Pandora, last.fm, favourite Blips
Saw boys, toys, laptops and iPods
My brain hurt like a data warehouse
It had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store
Everything in there
And all the Technorati people
And all the Techcrunch people
And all the blogosphere people
And all the Disqus people
I never thought I'd need so many people
Arrington went off his thread
Hit some tiny startups
If Scoble hadn't a-pulled him off
I think he would have killed them
A fanboy with a broken arm
Fixed his stare to the screen of a iPhone
A blogger knelt and kissed the feet of a priest
And Steve Jobs threw up at the sight of that
I think I saw you in an cyber parlour
Drinking milkshack shakes cold and long
Twittering and twittering and looking so fine
Don't think you knew you were in this post
And it was cold and it rained
So I felt like a friendfeed
And I thought of Wordpress
and I wanted to get back there
Your template, your font, your widgets you know
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you for show
We got five minutes, stuck on my blog
We got five minutes, what a surprise
We got five minutes, my brain hurts a lot
We got five minutes, that's all we've got