A moment of fun, a lifetime of regret

January 25, 2007

I forgot to mention, in that last post, that amid all the hoopla over user-generated content at Davos this year, there was one guy who decided to toss a turd into the Web 2.0 punchbowl. Who was this malefactor? Believe it or not, it was none other than the blogmeister himself, Technorati's David Sifry. According to the FT, Sifry cautioned the attendees that "some Web 2.0 tools could backfire on the next generation of Davos delegates, warning that the Supreme Court justices and presidential candidates of 20-30 years time could be embarrassed by their juvenile MySpace pages and drunken photos on Facebook." Thanks for the tip, dad.

Posted by nick at January 25, 2007 09:56 AM

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Comments

That never happened with old media. (See: Barack Obama's first book.) Actually, what will happen is that you'll need a perfectly calibrated MySpace history-- not too slutty and druggy, but not too Eddie Haskell clean and smarmy, either. As usual politics favors those who've been planning to be president since they were 4, and acting accordingly.

Posted by: Mgmax at January 25, 2007 12:31 PM