I've officially declared Friday June 1 spoof day. Not sure why, but I'm off on holiday tomorrow, so that might have something to do with it.
First up is a site I meant to write about last week, but didn't. It's called Dawdlr and is from our friend Russell Davies, blogger extraordinaire and cafe connoisseur. It calls itself "a Twitter for the long now", and takes the spirit of Twitter and the archness of PostSecret and it's basically a postal-based status updater: very slow, ultimately pointless but a welcome distraction for those who like to arse around a bit.
I've tried to make dawdlr way slower than twitter. I reckon most people I know twitter about twice a day, so dawdlr is going to update twice a year. To try and get people to say what they're doing, you know, more generally.
A wag would say that Russell will forget to update (he plans the first one in November). But I doubt it.
Secondly we've got Sporkk, which I think perfectly skewers (or sporks) the bubble-headed atmosphere that's pervading the dotcom industry at the moment.
"Where the long tails of life and fast-food cutlery meet" is the slogan, and the most concerning thing is that I think there's a worrying possibility that some venture capitalist somewhere is going to half-consider whether they should pump some cash into it.
