Bathroom 2.0, Collaboration at it's best
Warning geek content.
Ok, I apologize in advance, this thought trail may be a bit painful for some, but those reading this blog are probably used to it by now.
The other day I watched a great video posted over at bexhuff.com about the future of the web and how it may evolve. The video points out how pathetic and sentient we really are as a nation, with the millions of hours of television we watch collectively each year.
It goes on to explain what the presenter termed "cognitive surplus" and how just 1% of that time could be used to collaborate on thousands of wikipedia projects.
By now most of you reading this should have a general idea about the collaborative internet deemed "Web 2.0"? If not, just think of Facebook, MySpace, etc.
Ironically there is a wikipedia article defining it. Ahh, that makes me chuckle. It should just be a page that says, "this is it" or "you are here"
Anyway, the other day I was in a random public bathroom at a rest stop in a not so nice area of town. I couldn't help but notice the "graffitti" on the walls.
It looked something like this (I leave it to you to fill in the censored parts)
Now, my first reaction was to immediately whip out my Sharpie and contribute to the discussion but then it hit me. This was collaboration. A bit immature but collaboration none the less. So then I had this idea, what if people were given an alternative method?
One package of work friendly magnetic poetry and viola!
Bathroom 2.0
Thanks to my friend Billy for helping me out.
posted by Cordell @ 11:06 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
I can see an Excited Cordell dancing in joy when he discovered this Bathroom was 'upgraded' to Bathroom 2.0.
Hopefully your bedroom will not be 2.0 also ?
Which is more disturbing: Cordell in a bathroom “in a not so nice area of town” or Cordell in a seedy bathroom with a camera?
Dellio - of course the bathroom 2.0 idea is brilliant, another reason for men to never leave the stall.... I have magnets all over the place, I'm so neurotic, I made my own! =) OCD must run in the family....
I had never heard the word sentient, so have been pouring over explanations on it... I saw on wik it's used in many formats... i saw one reference was to gaming.. .LOL... however, I didn't put that explanation below... from which literary vein did you pull the word from? Educate me man!
The word sentient is often confused with the word sapient, which can connote knowledge, consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusion is that the word conscious has a number of different usages in the English language. The two words can be distinguished by looking at their Latin roots: sentire, "to feel"; and sapere, "to know".
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