Web Monitor
16:08 UK time, Wednesday, 23 December 2009
A celebration of the riches of the web.
Today in Web Monitor: 2009 predictions checked, what's coming up for 2010 and the decade of the emo.
• Back in June, Web Monitor highlighted to regulate pundits, in the hope they wouldn't wave around predictions willy-nilly.
Now it looks like they are doing it themselves. First off, himself six out of 10 for his 2009 predictions. He was right that there wouldn't be an election this year but wrongly predicted Nicholas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni would have a baby.
Political blogger so well - getting only four or five out 10. But he does make one offer, referencing his free-to-read site:
"Collect your refund on the way out..."
• So on to a new prediction for next year. if 2010 is the year scientists will be able to create life from scratch in the lab - nicknamed Synthia:
"Waiting for Synthia - that has been the script for enthusiasts of synthetic life for the past two years, ever since genomics pioneer Craig Venter promised to unveil a living bacterial cell carrying a genome made from scratch in the lab. 2010 is the year for him to deliver."
• The music trend of the decade for emo. An excuse to wear black for some and baffling to others, Galil explains how the movement has changed over the last 10 years:
"Whereas earlier in the decade, emo was synonymous with well-adjusted, upper-middle class teenagers who wore Abercrombie & Fitch and sought to force all their existential quandaries on failed relationships and romantic longing, emo has somehow become associated with depressed, potentially-suicidal tweens who drape their bodies in all things black and could potentially be members of a cult, maybe."
Links in full
The 
