It’s an image. It’s an animation. It’s both!!

It’s Imagimation!

The image below may appear to be a 2-dimensional drawing. Hold down your left mouse button and scroll up (or down) and use a little imagimation! Animating a 2d image using an imagined 3d perspective.

You know you’ve got an imagination, but did you know that you’ve also got an ‘imagimation?’ While most people are well-versed at imagining a static picture, far fewer of us regularly practice imagimating, animating that static image. In fact, it’s must harder to do than most people would think.

Why is it that you have to look back and forth at oncoming traffic before making a left-hand turn? Because YOU are limited in your imagimative capabilties.

Fear not though, practice imagimating and you’ll increase your capacity for such heady activity. You might even become happier and more successful! Especially if your newly developed imagimation motivates you to develop other abilities and talents.

Tell your friends and family that you’ve got imagimation and then explain it to them. Not only will you be helping them to think about things a bit differently, you’ll be having a notable achievement!

Most of the services we enjoy from Web2.0 companies are offered “FREE” of charge. Friendly reminder here….NOTHING’S FREE!! The cost for free services may be hidden, but ultimately each User pays for the services in some way.

Users have for the most part stopped reading the Terms and Conditions to which they agree when they register at free Web2.0 sites. Many Users have NEVER reviewed the Terms and Conditions, but in their defense, the deals early on were pretty fair. Google swore they’d do no evil and began rolling out service after service - for FREE!

I appreciate what Google’s founders were attempting to do when they pledged to do no evil. Ironically however, because ‘do no evil’ was characterized as a standard by which to act, and not as an ideal towards which to strive, people came to count on it. Users quickly viewed it as the norm for Google and other web companies.

Users were happy to let Google use their data to improve search results, to filter spam, and whatever else Google might do under the terms of the User Agreements. For a short while it even seemed that Google’s duty to investors was aligned with its sense of responsibility to its Users and its interest in doing no evil. Eventually however, Google was forced act in keeping with its duty to investors and short term profitability.

[Time Magazine->http://www.time.com/time/] will hit the newsstands Monday with the [Person of the Year issue->http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html]. And the Person of the Year is….YOU! Congratulations!!

Now before you get a swelled head, Time has also decided that I’m the Person of the year as well. In fact, Time’s Person of the Year 2006 is anyone using or creating content on the World Wide Web. Time salutes each of us “…for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy…,” and for basically pointing out new ways in which we all can benefit from the Web.

Time also makes certain to point out that “…Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone…But that’s what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail.”

You are Time’s Person of the Year because You are using or creating content for Web2.0.

Web2.0 + You = [Web2.U->http://www.plexav.com/archives/2006/web20-web2u/]!

By naming You Person of the Year, Time Magazine is attempting to point You towards the ideal that is Web2.U. I’ve been writing about [Web2.U->http://www.plexav.com/archives/2006/web20-web2u/] for about a year now and invite you to read and comment.

If you want to see what Web2.U is all about, then Digg or Reddit this post. You’ll not only be indicating an interest in Web2.U, you’ll be demonstrating that Web2.U is all about You! Congratulations on being named Person of the Year!

Summum Bonum

I never would have believed it if it hadn’t happened to me over and over and over again. Reddit is not accepting new entries!! Why? The message I keep getting is “you’re submitting too fast.”

Now I know I’ve developed a fast trigger finger from years of Atari2600, but this is silly. I’m betting that the boys from Reddit, after their sale, decided to take a few days off and ‘whoops’ look at what happens when there’s nobody minding the store. Digg is going have a field day with this!

Of course another explanation is that I developed superpowers while I slept last night and even now, while I think I’m only typing at 57WPM, I’m actually clocking in at an amazing 57,000WPM. It only appears usual to me because I must have also developed Super Eyesight. Sheesh.

Great job Reddit, really.

Can someone else test this and confirm??