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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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I’ll not be posting anything in the near future…busy with a project and the babies. Try back in January ‘07.
In the mean time, visit the Parker Family blog where I will be posting pictures every couple of weeks.
Fred Wilson writes about a great idea for Twitter in Event Firehoses in Twitter.
I think that is a great idea. This is something I have been thinking about for quite a while. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to subscribe to an event in such a way.
For the sake of discussion, I […]
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. […]
This is a bit off topic for this blog, but significant nevertheless for me. I’m from St. Louis Missouri, where area rivers are overflowing their banks. I have extensive pictures posted at my flickr account which can be found here: Jim Parker ’s Flickr
One of my favorites, Umair Haque, (who is now writing at hbs too) wrote the following last week in a blog entry:
“That feeling - like a dull toothache - is a massively powerful heuristic that something is deeply wrong; wrong with McJobs; wrong with $100m bonuses for value destruction; wrong with the evisceration of variety, […]
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