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Milky Way of ratings

One for the holiday season: The star classification of hotels (in the Netherlands) will become meaningless. Or rather, nothing is mandatory anymore and there will be two standards to choose and rate by. So, we’ll have a Milky Way full of ratings.
And don’t come to me with the argument that user reviews dominated the skies (Internet) already. First, as the article states, tourists still pick hotels by their star rating; and second, user ratings with all their flaming and rigging have been even more useless than any official one. Though the latter was too simple to game, as well. E.g., having a ‘spa’ of sorts (basement with two massage beds and a puddle (-sized pool) upped any hostel with another star.

But then, what now?

Will restraint win at the end of the day, or will by that time the restrained have fallen back too much to cope and join the hyperinflation that came from below?

[How would you rate this view, if at all? Madrid]

No Yo (~ Carpe Diem)

Well Hello! has anyone seen an app this stupid lately ..? Yoyoyo!
Looks a bit like:

[Dutchies read this review; star rating appropriate: (Parool review)]

Or remember the I Am Rich app:

Altogether, this sort of thing is for the yolo generation, that had forgotten how hip it is to not know one’s Carpe Diem – right! Same expression, same content. Sort of, not; the original at least had the idea to let you make most of life, not to get you out of the gene pool ASAP as per these awards that have been around since the inception of the ‘Net …
[Updated to add: Yo themselves can’t seem to grasp their own irony, as in this article…]

Wired / tired / expired

[A building. What parti; what intention, does it work ..?]

I really wish Wired mag would bring back its wired/ tired/ expired jargon watch. Online, of course.

We need it. Online, all sorts of things may be kept in a sort-of Gartner hype cycle tally, too. For the things, memes, and apps, that persist or not, for the ones that fade away (‘dynamic tombstone’?), for posterity. And to prevent ugly words from becoming Word of the Year or so.

Or should we do it ourselves? I’ll give it a shot. Will have to dig into the format, layout, rules, starting base.
Any ideas about a categorisation in Hot / Sloth / Not ..?

See you in 2014!