Tag: Internet

Something Completely Different

You're A Hoser, Eh
You're A Hoser, Eh

Attention Deficit, easily distracted, over-achiever, multi-tasker, you name it, this will satisfy your curiosity for new and cool things on the Internet – popular links to great Internet domains.

We may never see you again, but remember this, where else can you find a person that writes five daily blogs, even while traveling Internationally?

We All Have Addictions

Are We Trained For Them?
Are We Trained For Them?

We all have addictions.

“No we don’t”, is the echo we can hear from some of you.

“Yes we do”, is the echo we can hear from some others, including myself.

Is it hereditary?  Click here to read this article that suggests it is.

Pick your poison:

Approval, chocolate, work, sex, TV, food, Internet, exercise, reading, pessimism, optimism, Love, Faith, Hope, Money, shopping, volunteering, excuses, greed, jealously, alcohol, drugs, caffeine, pain, pleasure, video games, gambling, competition, failure, success, nicotine, etc.

What Does It Take For These

Best of the Best = Gold Medal
Best of the Best = Gold Medal

What does it take for these accolades:

  • Person of the Year – Ben Bernachi
  • Athlete of the Decade – Tiger Woods
  • Top You Tube views – Susan Boyle

The last one, top You Tube views is amazing because of the staggering odds against it ever happening.

  • 120,000,000 views
  • More than 2nd, 3rd, & 4th most viewed combined
  • Before last year, who the heck is Susan Boyle?

For everyone who isn’t embracing the Internet, you still have time.

Yesterday’s announcement of the iPad is just another indication the world is changing.

Embrace it or ignore it?

Pick one.

Eight Posts Yesterday

CAUTION!
CAUTION!

Blah, blah, blah, right?

The Internet’s only Five-a-Day Blogger”…..

It started as a 100-day challenge to become a better writer, after a Father told his young son, “If you want to be a better reader, you should read a lot.”

So what happens yesterday?  Not five daily blogs, but eight.

Recently, had a discussion and we talked about the future of books:

  • Books will be relics on display in Museums
  • eBooks will dominate
  • Kindle will destroy the publishing industry
  • The publishing industry will watch it happen
  • Librarians will lose their jobs
  • Unless they become Cybrarians
  • There were 177,000 books published last year
  • People think it’s hard to write a book
  • Authors think their book will sell many copies
  • Barnes & Noble will go out of business eventually
  • People get ready (Bob Marley reference)

“Books” will be written one day at a time. In public, for the public.

Books will be free.  Writers will be poor. And writers will come to realize that there are far too many choices.

A whole new paradigm is being created.

One page per day, almost like reality TV.  People will read blogs, and over time, they will have “read a book” and not even know it.

Eventually, this new paradigm will give way to the next.