My 2006 predictions and 2005 wrapups
My 2006 prediction: You won’t catch me writing another damned post filled with bullshit predictions for 2006.
My 2005 wrapup: I already had enough bullshit in 2005, who needs more?
Gawd, I hate the end of the year. I’d list the top 10 reasons why I hate the end of the year. But I have only one reason: End-of-the-year lists. I hate ‘em.
Tags: Culture
December 28th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Sheesh. You’re no fun.
December 28th, 2005 at 5:20 pm
Ironic, considering the role you played in the creation of the largest list generating operation in the history of mankind. Namely, EW.
December 28th, 2005 at 5:49 pm
Penance, Louis, penance. I’ll say five Hail Madonnas and do a good act of hyping.
December 29th, 2005 at 7:19 am
[...] Meer overzichten over 2005 en voorspellingen voor 2006: Blogmania Business Blog Jason Calacanis (Weblogs Inc) Emerce-bloggers Tien trends voor 2006 volgens Mercury News De slechtste momenten van 2005 volgens Wired En de beste … Het mediajaar volgens Buzzflash Steve Yelvington Jeff Jarvis (Buzz Machine) [...]
December 29th, 2005 at 11:32 am
Well, I’m relieved. I thought that Instapundit wrote that Jarvis hated Liszt. And I said to myself, “Now, what does Jeff have against Hungarian composers?”
So I hurry on over here to see what the rumpus is, and I find that it’s merely an aversion to numbering. Whew!
Must have been all the year-end holiday baccanalia in which I have been indulging. I will chalk this mistake up to too much drink. Because after all, sooner or later, everything is just Bartalk.
December 29th, 2005 at 11:48 am
[...] NEW YEAR PREDICTIONS: Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost actually took the time to determine that he achieved a 67% accuracy rate in guessing 2005 predictions, while Jeff Jarvis at BussMachine hates end-of-the-year predictions. [...]
December 29th, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Of course you hate end of year wrapups and predictions. You write (nearly) 365 days a year, and have no need to write fluff to fill in the holiday season.
90% of those things are written (or mostly written) long before Thanksgiving.
December 29th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
Here’s a list from another guy who doesn’t like lists
http://blakeross.com/2005/12/26/my-predictions-for-the-new-year/
December 29th, 2005 at 2:48 pm
Right… right… Jeff just tells everyone what to do and what needs to be done the other 50 weeks a year. Pah-lease.
December 29th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
>I already had enough bullshit in 2005, who needs more?
Correction:
>I already wrote enough bullshit in 2005, who needs more!
December 29th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Jason:
Oh, no, Jeff committed the cardinal sin of not doing what Jason does. Puhleeze, pardon me!
December 29th, 2005 at 4:58 pm
Required: That’s what I was saying. Want me to twist my own sword? There. Done. Pardon me while I lay dying.
December 29th, 2005 at 8:24 pm
Cheery around here isn’t it.
December 29th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
I hate top ten lists all the time, and not just at year’s end. Why are there only ten of anything worth listing? What’s the difference between number eleven, which didn’t make the cut, and number ten? Items of note do not organize themselves into tens any more than history organizes itself into decades and centuries.
The only thing I hate more than top ten lists are year end lists of “what’s hot and what’s not.” Who the hell authorized these morons who write for the style section and lifestyle magazines to decide that crap? I’ll eat sushi or Cajun or Thai food anytime, not because some metrosexual thinks it’s cool.
Oh yeah, the only other thing I hate more than top ten lists and “what’s hot, what’s not” lists are new year’s resolutions. If a resolution is worth keeping, it’s worth making whenever it occurs to you to do it.
Huh… that’s only three things I hate about this time of year… need another seven to make ten…
December 30th, 2005 at 4:06 am
[...] Tijd voor lijstjes. Blogmania Business Blog Jason Calacanis (Weblogs Inc) Emerce-bloggers Tien trends voor 2006 volgens Mercury News De slechtste momenten van 2005 volgens Wired En de beste … Het mediajaar volgens Buzzflash Steve Yelvington Jeff Jarvis (Buzz Machine) De tien leukste gadgets volgens The New York Times De meest voorspelbare verhalen van 2005 volgens Wired Beste en slechtste voorspellingen voor 2005 volgens Wired De beste sites van 2005 volgens Emerce De 25 beste foto’s volgens Time De tien beste online mediaverhalen volgens CyberJournalist Acht trends voor kranten die doorzetten in 2006 volgens Editors Weblog Vier soorten burgerjournalistiek (Onder meer via Steve Yelvington) [...]
December 30th, 2005 at 4:18 am
[...] Tijd voor lijstjes. Tien trends voor 2006 volgens Mercury News De slechtste momenten van 2005 volgens Wired En de beste … Het mediajaar volgens Buzzflash Steve Yelvington Jeff Jarvis (Buzz Machine) De tien leukste gadgets volgens The New York Times De meest voorspelbare verhalen van 2005 volgens Wired Beste en slechtste voorspellingen voor 2005 volgens Wired De beste sites van 2005 volgens Emerce De 25 beste foto’s volgens Time De tien beste online mediaverhalen volgens CyberJournalist Acht trends voor kranten die doorzetten in 2006 volgens Editors Weblog Vier soorten burgerjournalistiek Blogmania Business Blog: Het bedrijfsleven en web 2.0 in 2005 Mijn voorspellingen - Jason Calacanis (Weblogs Inc) De online wereld in 2006 volgens Emerce-bloggers (Onder meer via Steve Yelvington) [...]
December 31st, 2005 at 2:00 am
[...] I’m with Jeff Jarvis on year-end lists: they annoy me. But many smart people have been making smart predictions about “oh, the places we’ll go”, so I’ve been reading those over with some interest. [...]
December 31st, 2005 at 5:25 pm
I predict that in the Year 2006…
…Howard Dean’s head will explode from internal pressure.
…some actor will be caught with his pants down, and the media will talk about it until long after we stop caring.
…at least one major newspaper/news magazine will go bankrupt, after spending way too much ink on that actor who got caught with his pants down.
…some natural disaster will occur, and global warming/America/the secret death-ray will be blamed as the cause.
…scientists will announce the discovery of extraterrestrial microscopic life beneath the surface of Mars. Creationists will immediately denounce this as a Satanic conspiracy, and claim that Mars is in fact the location of Hell.
…a people’s revolution, demanding full democracy, will topple the Iranian regime. France will offer political asylum for the exiled leaders.
…T** C***** will divorce. And get married. And break Oprah’s couch.
…bloggers will become more powerful than the press. Then the CORRUPTION of blogging sets in.
January 1st, 2006 at 8:50 pm
wish ya lots of bullshit lists to do in the new year.