Would appreciate feedback on tweet blogging (flow versus sidebar).
Last 10 tweets from @brij
Retweet: @stevebaker Tim Berners-Lee: “You can look at a blog, but what’s impacting the world is the blogosphere.” at 06/18/2008 09:47 PM
[PHOTO] One rape every 29 minutes. Shame India! Watching news at Indian restaurant in Cupertino.
http://messagedance.com/message/show/ad5866ab145a91dcc01b523464b54c72 at 06/18/2008 08:22 PM
Child abduction drill, reporting live from the streets of Wellesley, MA http://www.messagedance.com/WPDPhoto at 06/18/2008 07:43 PM
[BLOG POST] Reddit goes open source with CPAL license, probably caused major LOL in Diggnation Reddit is releasin
http://www.onemoreidea.org/reddit-goes-open-source-with-cpal-license-probably-ca… at 06/18/2008 07:33 PM
1and1 customer support emails can put Colbert show to shame. Time to move on. I had to chase down their CS head on LinkedIn at 06/18/2008 05:33 PM
RBS - all chickens come home to roost! [u]
http://messagedance.com/message/show/262d76d580ccf3f0458e7a88e6975832 at 06/18/2008 04:17 PM
[PHOTO] Type in about:robots in FF3 to see this - thanks @danishkhan
http://messagedance.com/message/show/292854f0c22533033b5cebbc490a8f90 at 06/18/2008 05:44 AM
What is common between Daily Kos, MichelleMalkin, BetaNews, HotAir etc? - Bipartisan willingness to AP-ee at 06/18/2008 05:24 AM
for events like this, media units should have dress code as well http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7460005.stm at 06/18/2008 05:21 AM
@danishkhan better luck next year. I can feel your pain #LakersFor2009 at 06/18/2008 04:32 AM
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I thought I should just talk to my blog. As I have been ignoring him (blog unisexual?) for quite some time.
Will resume next year with new theme. Till then happy holiday to all accidental visitors.
The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed - William Gibson
The future is already here - it is just unevenly indexed - me
“I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything” - Seinfeld
What you need to be successful? You need brains but you also need stick-to-itiveness. Many tries at a solution can fail, but then on the last try something magical happens. - Robert Tarjan
It is not the critic who counts…the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood…who knows great enthusiasms, and great devotions…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
This is for you:
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs
[This post is in response to this post. I could have just emailed Steve but hey blog rebuttal is the new in-thing]
Silicon Valley is full of visionaries, pundits and geeks. Lot of these folks provide good enough reason for lot of people to live here and be a part of the guess-the-next-big-thing game. I do that as well and I love it. I most probably fall under “geek” category as visionary and pundit title usually comes as part of the work. It’s something one has to earn. There is no tax in putting this in your resume by the way. LinkedIn takes some time to come back when you search for term “visionary”. It’s that overused and over-bestowed.
Therein lies my problem with the way Steve approached this domain name thing with me. He called me round about few hours after my wife came out of operation room. She had a c-section. He straight away asked me to give back the domain name to him. I politely told him “I appreciate your work and I will get back to you”. For some reason he thinks I made a bad move by registering this domain name. I didn’t get back to him as I got busy and I thought if Steve is serious then he will discuss the project in detail.
At that time I had this vague idea of a living book which captures emerging social and economic themes around iphone. (I am a second day buyer and this blog supports iphone theme!). Also I am a big fan of Steven Levitt as well and iphone is not the first term where I have tried applying “onomics”. This word I had thought before I saw Steve’s post. Steve’s post made me rush towards domain name registration. Not only that I put this domain name on sedo to study how irrational this whole thing will get. Watching and being part of domain name chase around iphone was a huge fun and still is. I am a project squatter not a domain squatter. Never sold any domain name so far. Doesn’t mean I wont sell any in future but projects excite me more than just domain names. I have my little lab as well.
This experience made me appreciate the dynamics of coining-terms industry better. In academic world there are clear rules. Either you publish or perish. Sitting in Starbucks and blogging your brains out doesn’t allow rigorous auditing. So when someone comes up with apparently new meme, then there are not many firms or tools to answer the question - who really invented this meme ? Maybe the lesson here is to adopt a new approach for coining terms. In our new world its the techmeme which holds the key.
It’s good that I already have CognitiveSpam domain name otherwise I will be blamed for that as well.
Some quotable quotes from the master himself:
On the future of newspaper comics -
The Internet may well provide a new outlet for cartoonists, but I
imagine it’s very hard to stand out from the sea of garbage, attract a
large audience, or make money. Newspapers are still the major leagues
for comic strips . . . but I wouldn’t care to bet how long they’ll stay
that way.
What attributes do you wish were seen more commonly among children? -
Good parents!
Complete interview here.
