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blog or not to blog : rise of social media

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mitch joel has some expanded thoughts on why you need to invest in social media & disagreement over the life and/or death of blogging. he has rooted some great thinking lines.

It sounds like we’re back to the relationship over the immediate sale.

Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown
out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible
to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes
to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on
Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter…

"Don’t blog to get known, blog to be knowable."

out early playing often : teaching tech to church folks

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tomorrow, waaay too early for me, i’m heading out to albuquerque. i’m meeting up with wifey, who is flying in from washington dc, and we are catching a free day before i get to work teaching technology stuff to folks at cef conference.

i’m sure to be hanging out with david camphouse & hopefully laura, who actually lives there but not going to the conference. anyone else going to be there?

photo courtesy of ‘open thread‘

tron vs matrix : not so new

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so i’ve been rewatching some old sci-fi stuff lately and yesterday i was putting together some thoughts that tron & the matrix series are much the same. silly this may be & possibly i’m the only one that would get a kick out of processing this i’m still sharing. i told erin about it and she just gave me that sarcastic smile and nod.

etherial being/computer

  • matrix: matrix computer, operates the slavery of humans in a cyber construct
  • tron: master computer/control program, is deleting, getting rid of useless programs

antagonist

  • matrix: mr. smith, beyond the matrix itself
  • tron: sark, beyond the master control

antagonists buddies

  • matrix: agents, or the many mr. smith’s in last two movies
  • tron: i don’t know what they are called, but they looked like cylons from battlestar galactica

protagonist

  • matrix: neo, special being who, who happens to move digitally into and out of the computer world, has to realize as he’s going how he saves the world
  • tron: flynn, special being who, after being zapped digitally into the computer world, has to realize as he’s going along how he saves the world

protagonist buddy

  • matrix: morpheus, he is the one that generally knows all about the antagonist and buddies and how to move around the world and go places to save the world
  • tron: tron, he is actually a security program that is suppose to protect the computer system.

plotlines

  • matrix is computer generated reality that uses folks for its survival. humans, if they figure it out can go into and out of the system digitally/virtually. if people died digitally in the matrix they were dead in the real world..
  • tron is a super computer that does what it has to in order to survive, bring in a human into the computer (by breaking the human into packets) to protect itself. flynn was the only person, but the data information that went into these combat games were different people, accounting programs etc. so when their program data was killed, what happened to the person in real life? ‘damn lost file!’

that is not all my parallels i can draw.. but i am feeling a real overload in geek that tells me i need to unplug this thought for now. care to share you own parallels?

wrapping up barcamp : processing thoughts

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Sidetoday was the blitz that is barcamp. for the second year in a row the wifey and i got to take part. it was fun to run into tech friends that we generally never see but online, others for the first time. i kept a rolling log of notes from the sessions for those with a lot of extra time.

highlights for me go like such; hanging with erin for a day doing geek stuff, laughing with at chris and his utter geekdom in geocaching, hearing some new tech ideas, going tweet mad & almost being affirmed for it. my favorite session is hard to say, but david bullock‘s with the barack 2.0 analysis was pretty cool. we’ve seen all the obama campaign stuff in action, to see it analyzed and the methodology behind it is insightful.

other thoughts? this years barcamp was way highend compared to last year venue wise. i liked the raw nature of last years venue at exit-in, though temperature wise today was much better. don’t get me wrong, i liked the space for this years unconference. last year though it felt more like you were a part of something very organic, and this was getting more like corporate. i liked the four/three various camps compared to the two last year (though last year we stayed in the main venue). the geekdom was more basic than some of the stuff i experienced last year. purposefully erin & went to some of the basic stuff, but even the ones that we thought might be big challenges were more scratch the surface stuff. there were some stuff i sat in on last year that was so out there for me that i still think about it.

what is possibly going to come back to haunt me? dave interviewed me candidly while hanging out in the halls as part of a promo for a potential memphis barcamp. i didn’t say anything stupid, really, i didn’t. but upon further review i had a nice pimple starting to take space above my lip, and his camera was hd.. that won’t work well for my ego.

other thing i realized from barcamp… i really need to just buckle down and do the site update of this blog that i have talked about for like 8 months.

looking forward to next year