What words we choose make all the difference. Poetry transcends poems and can be found in music, sculpture dance, computer code and gestures.

Thank you for your word choices, great post.

we DO know what the game is .. it is the external building of what nature already is, totally connected, unified, One … this is all technology is doing, and you can measure everything that comes along in those terms, and know if it will be useful, or not

“No wonder we take it so personally when they break.” And go so far as to lovingly make derivative art about the failure — the whole fail whale thing is cracking me up.

“It’s tough keeping a scorecard when we don’t even know what game we’re playing.”

we do know what the game is .. it is the external building of what nature already is, totally connected, unified, One … this is all technology is doing, and you can measure everything that comes along in those terms, and know if it will be useful, or not

the vast bulk of internet stuff is merely maintenance stuff, but if you look at the leading edge people, they are ALL interested in where this is going, and they KNOW

(i will use seesmic as example, since he already commented here … his work is all about connection, it is adding to the flow towards unity)

nice writing, thanks

I think that there is a tiny subset of readers who are preoccupied with the in-fighting and the cult of personality but, I’m guessing, for most of us, that borders on egotistical self-preoccupation. We go where we can get the news, the most intelligent commentary, we go to where our friends are at or where we can be entertained. When bloggers start talking about their “fans” or their “community of readers”, they are letting their readership numbers inflate their sense of self-importance.

Humility and a sense of humor & of perspective about oneself are more important to me than a blogger having the latest technological toys to experiment with. Experience and intelligence are important but once the writer becomes more important than the topic they are commenting on, I’m gone. A certain level of self-preoccupation is fine for a personal blog but not one that acts as if it is an authoritative source of knowledge and information.

There should really be a technological equivalent of the E! Channel for these web celebrities where they can have True Silicon Valley Stories chronicle their epic rise and inevitable fall. Call it the T! Channel….Doritos for the mind.

Otherwise, I still find myself using Twitter as well, but I am not sure if I like it the best because I have not tested out all the clones yet.