My predictions for 2006

While we’re at it, here are my predictions for 2006 in no particular order:

• Guyly will be the new thing. It’s going to be cool to be guyly again.
• We at xsamplex will still carry the same boring layout. That’s because we’re boring! And the traffic is the prove of that! We’ll be stuck in the blogosphere’s No-List.
• Alan of GenX-40, will go A-List. Now it’s a good time to link to him.
• Dave Winer will launch the newest blogging craze: put pictures of your favourite friends and buddies on your blog’s header section. It will be called ‘header link love’ (HLL) but frankly, we at xsamplex prefer to call it ‘head crab’.
• Scoble (while we’re at it) will evangelize the newest blogging craze at Microsoft to advance his carreer at said company: put pictures of your favourite CEOs and managers on your blog’s header section (CLL). Dave Winer will claim it’s the same as ‘header love’ and Scoble and Winer will have a fallout. As a result of the fallout, both Dave and Scoble will be demoted to the C-List.
• Blake Ross will turn Firefox into a Jack Of All Trades application: it will be able to do everything except for rendering HTML. After all HTML is so 1.0.
• Internet Explorer 7 will be released but nobody will actually remember what it was used for before, because everybody has already switched to other browsers like Opera, Camino or Firefox.
• The web will run out of diskspace because of hyperlinking abuse. Tim Berners-Lee will ask proprietors of websites not to use the <a> anchor tag anymore, which will save approximately 50% of diskspace on servers worldwide. Dave Winer will suggest to get rid of the <p> tag by arguing that ‘nobody needs paragraphs anyways’.
• Oh, and a last one: blogging about politics is going to be so 2004-2005. Blogging about guyly things is going to be the next thing. You heard it here first.

There. Have at it.