Until a few years ago, when talking on the phone, people's opening line was like 'hi, how are you.' Now it seems to be 'hi, where are you,' as mobile telephony is the de facto standard of voice communication and privacy is becoming thinner and thinner. Also, if only a couple of years ago you would specify 'call me on my cellphone,' now this is the default case and you specify only 'call me on my landline phone.'

Ch-ch-ch-changes, as The Thin White Duke would say. So, where is the next cool shift going to happen?

Anyone wants to bet that in 5 to 10 years time some of us we'll have on our business-cards a few RSS/XML feeds URLs and no web page address?

I say that because the way I surf the net changed radically in the last, say, 2 years from a bookmarks-based surfing to a RSS-based reading/surfing. I have this huge collection of feeds divided into categories and I keep adding new ones and deleting the most unpopular of the old ones. I love the way text loads instantaneous (so I even consider reading feeds from those unusable 'rich-media,' unnavigable 'creative,' all-flash web sites which otherwise I find myself closing before they load). In the dock the order is email client, RSS aggregator and web browser -- and this order speaks for itself. I have the bookmarks manager, also. It is still useful, but almost only for web research and my blog-writing habits.