I was siting in the office on the sixth floor of the Cahuenga Building and decided to treat myself to a steaming mug of cream of artificial flavouring soup. I started thinking about how easy it is for any two bit sleuth to find out information these days. Take these so called tagging set ups. Aparently any wise guy can put the finger on a particular website and tell their friends how great it is. Now this old fashioned gum-shoe may have been the subject to a few too many Brodericks, but I find there just isn't any substitution for a good old fashioned stake out. The proper search startegy will give you all the dope you'll ever need. I'm just not willing to trust any old shyster to try to sell me some info, and swear that it's all on the square.
Mind you if I wanted to make some sort of trip for biscuits to find someone to drink out of the same bottle with, then I suppose these rackets might not be such a bad idea. After all you try to pick up a skirt these days using any of the convetional methods and you're liable to find someone carrying a gat and end up wearing a wooden kimono.

Sorry if my first few posts sounded a bit unusual,but I've found my voice now.

Most of this Web 2.0 stuff is like eggs in the coffee, but it's nice to see the wise heads having a go. I'm guessing they already have the bees so probably don't need to play along. It must be a hard lay acting as the finger man giving all the blogs the up and down to see if they are all keeping up, must be enough to leave one craving the corn.
 

Like so many Jaspers I don't rate Wikipedia as a reference tool, the way some mugs rely on it is enough to drive this shamus to the eel juice, however I've always found this variation to be very interesting (you probably won't be able to access it at the office), but that's not the point of this exercise (unfortunately). 
Wikis certainly act as a good wire, but I think their usefulness can be matched by online forums and applications such as Google Docs (but they'll have to wait untill week 8). 

P.S. I  noticed Luza won one of the July ipods. I also noticed that Luza made some clear threats on his/her blog in the event that he/she did not win an ipod. Therefore... 
Watch it Kelly I know a can opener, who for a pair of C notes will come round and play some chin music to make sure the ipod goes to the right gumshoe got it?

I am particularly interested in the Web 3.0 apps currently in development i.e. google gears. I have checked out googles new "encyclopedia" knol, currently it's quite limited mainly health related articles, no entries under Marlowe unbelievable. I guess time will tell whether it's any better than wikipedia.