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June 28, 2006 by Jim Parker in humanity
If you have any interest at all in the issue of flag burning, please read this post: I wish I knew what I know now, when I was younger by Tony Alva.
He says what I would say if I were so eloquent.
June 12, 2006 by Jim Parker in blogging
Uma and I are in the home stretch. Our twins are coming somewhere around the first two weeks of July. Thus, my “contribution” to the blogosphere will continue to be sporadic at best.
Nevertheless, there are all sorts of things going on these days. And there are so many things I yet want to do! I’ve got a nice list of blog topics, but not the time to develop them into good postings.
So, I will talk now about what troubles me the most:
How can it be that there are so many people writing about, developing, thinking, reading, participating, contributing to The New Media(s), yet when I discuss it with someone on the street, say a co-worker, I just get yawns. Yawns!!!
Why does the prospect of greatness within our new communications tools bring yawns from the general public? How can there be so many people that don’t understand what it means to blog? Or how can people not see the value in microchunking content so that they can consume it in absolutely any way that they want.
When is all of this stuff going to enter the mainstream?
Of course, there is mainstream reporting of what’s going on in Web 2.0. But few of those articles themselves do a good job of explaining why all of this is so important. In other words, the mainstream reporting is not having a large impact on people.
So how do we go the last mile? How do we move from products for early adopters to mature, mainstream, ubiquitous products?
It is inevitable. But When???
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Please welcome to the world Ethan James and Arianna Arshia Parker. Visit our family blog: Parker Family
A comment via email from Sundar (an Indian Buddy of mine):
Please explain me blogging…
Who has got time…to let alone write it….but to read all those…I do not get it…with all the flood of content around in the web… why would people spend time to read blogs… I know it is just me… there are already […]
There is no question on how much huge value immigrants of all kinds add to our Society. However, as our country grows and matures, we need to properly maintain the flood gates allowing people into this country. Loss of control of our boarders indicates that we don’t value enough of what we’ve got. We need […]
What is Attention? Attention is Everything.
We all have a limited amount of resources. Money, Time, Capital, and Talent are just a few of the more important ones.
It suffices to say that if you have enough of the above resources, you can do anything - which means you can do everything you ever wanted to do. […]
What a wonderful fall it has been, truly a dream come true. I’ve been dying to come back and write about all my news. I’ve got a lot to talk about.
Arianna and Ethan are doing well - they are a very loud bunch. They’ve brought joy to my life I never knew I could have.
Thus, […]
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