December 18th, 2008
iGeneration 2008 in review
I started on this blog, a nervous and precarious young man, and remain somewhat a young man. To be honest, I’m surprised I’ve been here this long, let alone seconded onto another blog. Still, it’s been an interesting year and I’ll run through some of them in a minute. So far, this year has shown us:
- Facebook is becoming such a huge part of our lives, that even students are trying to kill it;
- Windows Fiji, as reported by Mary-Jo Foley, turned out to be a bit of a flop;
- We could (well, we never would have done but…) have seen the end of the world;
- I had my scheduled nervous breakdown, which went well, thanks for asking;
- I steal money off my parents.
If you like, you can skip straight to the iGeneration statistics page, to show you what you’ve been doing on here over the last year.
May
Not really that interesting to be honest. I started writing, but it wasn’t exactly my best material. I got all of 11 TalkBacks and a handful of emails telling me to “fudge off, you’re useless.” Nice to get off on the right foot with you lot.
June
Things started hotting up a bit in June, when on the first day I wrote about a bunch of Canadian students who tried to bring down Facebook with their “supreme” law skills. I’m glad to report, they failed miserably and subsequently crawled back into the hole they came from. I managed to get myself on the very front page in full glory of the technology arena with my articles on mixing the cloud with virtualisation; using “cloudivity” if you will.
By running your life in a VHD (virtual hard drive) and synching that file to the cloud, you can in theory access your computer from anywhere, as if you were really there. Sure, you could just use LogMeIn like I actually do, but it was an interesting thought.
I also threw my laptop out of the window in a minor fit of rage, with interesting results, and sparked a mild controversy when I put Google against Live Search in a battle of the search engines. Another high point for me was bringing together two controversial topics which thought would interest the readers; the lack of women in the IT industry which my former colleague, Philippa Snare, discussed with me, and the effect of being gay in the IT arena and whether it can hold your career back and sparking a mild international incident.
July, August and a bit of September –>
Zack Whittaker, the youngest in the ZDNet network, is a British student at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he studies BA (Hons) Criminology and Social Policy. His insight into the next-generation is unique and first-hand, sharing his knowledge of the here and now but more so what's next and how to get there.
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