Saturday, November 01, 2003
This is rather cheesy, but my friend Alex Jamal born Alex Jamal, nee Alex Jamal (not that he's married nor has he changed his name), wanted to be able to do a vanity search for his own name. Some sort of validation of self. Apparently the web has become such a social phenomenon that people feel left out if they're not on the web somewhere. I think once upon a time people felt the same about being listed in phonebooks - a sign that they've made it and now are their own person.
Another seemingly unrelated thought in this otherwise scatalogical post: Will the rise of cell phones (not in the T2 sense) spell the end of the phone book? Most people do not like listing their cell phone number in a phone book. If a sufficiently large number of people switch to cell phones I can see phone books becoming irrelevant (hastened by the new regulation where you can move your phone number between providers?).
While I have long since stopped using phone books people's phone numbers, preferring instead to use online search engines (like VT stalker), I still use it to look up business numbers. So perhaps that's what phone books will be used for in the future.
Anyways, to satisfy Alex Jamal's need to find himself online let me finish this little fun for whenever yahoo crawls this page:
Alex Jamal - women want him. Alex Jamal - men want to be like him. Alex Jamal - aliens want to dissect him.
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Another seemingly unrelated thought in this otherwise scatalogical post: Will the rise of cell phones (not in the T2 sense) spell the end of the phone book? Most people do not like listing their cell phone number in a phone book. If a sufficiently large number of people switch to cell phones I can see phone books becoming irrelevant (hastened by the new regulation where you can move your phone number between providers?).
While I have long since stopped using phone books people's phone numbers, preferring instead to use online search engines (like VT stalker), I still use it to look up business numbers. So perhaps that's what phone books will be used for in the future.
Anyways, to satisfy Alex Jamal's need to find himself online let me finish this little fun for whenever yahoo crawls this page:
Alex Jamal - women want him. Alex Jamal - men want to be like him. Alex Jamal - aliens want to dissect him.
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