Today, I recognize something that has been under our nose over some time but we have yet to stand up in protest. The Sesame Street Count and this supposed "Spelling Bee" would be most concerned with the apathy of this injustice. Whatever happened to the "e" in Internet startups? During the Net's heyday, the Internet dot-boomersscammers were busy adding a cute lower-cased "e" or "i" every word in the English dictionary (or is it now Nglish.com?). Look at eBay, eToys, eVite and eHarmony. Now that we are amidst a new dot-boombubble what happened to the English langauge's 2nd vowel? What does Web 2.0 know about grammar that the 1st net-genners missed out on? Though flickr, socializr, twittr and a number of other catchy web sites may not go the way of the buy.com (oh wait... they're still in business!), we are leaving a horrible legacy to the childrn (sic!) of tomorrow. Yes, take my words with a grain of salt - we are the same generation that went from "fat" to "phat" and created "bling" - but mark my words, more vowels and I daresay... even CONSONANTS may be sacrified at the hands of the next dot-startupsellout trying to be chic.
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