I left my phone at home yesterday. By accident.
It is trully shocking how lost and alone you can feel without your phone. Quite seriously - how did people manage without mobile phones? Sure, of course we managed. But I am so used to my phone that removing small things like texting people in the middle of a pub conversation is a real loss. I like the way that I can think a thought and, almost telepathy like, I can sent that thought to someone. Its great my mother now uses text, for that reason precisely. She may live 150 miles away, but communication is aided greatly by the power of text!!
By coincidence, young Kevin managed to lose his phone last night (a big posh p800) along with his life (wallet, bag, head...) and he is DISTRAUGHT - thats how much his phone means to him. It is of utmost importance.
Actually, it makes me wanna go off travelling - dump the phone, the big wallet of cards, the ipod, the keys. Travel light. Travel lite.
Could Blogs really be the future (and whatd'ya mean 'the future' anyhow).
Well, the new way of accessing information. Will they become bigger/more important than newspapers, tv, news gathered by companies?
What I like about blogs, and what this one fails to do or be, is that I can go to my list of blogs and access targetted information in a fairly accurate and limited subject area. So if I'm feeling frivilous I can get news on news Snacks in the US and UK on SnackSpot. If I want political intellectual transport stories, I go to transport blog (now that IS narrow cast). But the subtleties are are profound too. See, if I want transport stories, but don't want the hard arsed captialist approach, just some friend 'well fancy that' snippets, I can go over to 646 Industries Beyond Stupidity.
You could have described this situation to me a couple years ago, and I would have thought, gee that is STOOPID. How could anyone care about such slight differences. The newspaper is where its at, this is too complex, too intricate, too much hassle, and nobody will do it. But everyone does it , its easy to find and the wealth of info is outstanding. Not to be overlooked is that fact that professional (!?!?) news organisations do provide a talking point / subject lead / kick starter to a lot of the data that is out there in the blogs.
Now I'd never hold this blog up as anything approaching interesting. This is a self serving vomit holder - I wanna blab, I can do it here. The failings? Its not concentrating on a narrow cast area of interest (say, transport or music) and it doesn't have enough personaility to make it interesting per se (I could point to - 'no rock n roll fun', which although about music, is also interesting enough just because its funny - and its funny because its true...
Thats not to discount One Point Zero blog, which I like because its narrow cast is that it comes from a guy working in Brussels - so a curious (to me) point of view. And this is only talking about the blogs I've found that are worth reading.
No sure what I'm concluding from all this, except I think its all fantastic. Really. Fantastic. Blog. All of you. Please do. Cos I wanna read 'em.
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