Things I Forgot in 2009

No obligatory year in review post this year. Nope. Not gonna do it.
It’s been a good year, but a busy year. I had a lot of things I’d made notes to share that wound up  missed, ignored, left for dead, or flat-out forgotten. Here are a few of them.

Prom King and Queen of My Twitter Stream

One of the people I started following on Twitter was JC Hutchins. This was for a couple of reasons. First, he’s funny.  Second,  the way he uses twitter as marketing and promo tool is genius. He includes judicious doses of humour, humility, pride, and a certain non-annoying business savvy that I wish more people (including me) had.

Mighty Mur, of the I Should Be Writing podcast was another early find. An artful purveyor of promotion, her balance of personal anecdote and  information is served up in a very human and humane style. In particular, I’ve grown fond of her use of hashtags. So much so, in fact, it has inspired a new creative direction for 3S_stories in 2010 (more info next post).

Nov 17 – My First Year of Online Socializing

Yup, one year. Prior to November 2008, I used the web pretty much like my own personal library. Lots of information, and very little interaction. My work schedule changed and I found myself on a compressed shift, working my 40 hours from 6am to 7:30pm on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Well, this had some impact on the ol’ social life. Who’s at work when I’m off? Everybody, that’s who. Who’s hitting the town when I’m putting my PJs on? Everybody.  I started with the Six Sentences community on Ning, hooked up with the 13 Stitches crowd, and started tweeting my Short-short-short stories under the 3S_stories moniker. Twitter became my fave hang, and #fridayflash became my writing vice.

My online experience became more satisfying as it became more specific. Slowly, I got to the point  where I was following and being followed by interesting, benevolent, intelligent, funny people. Yay, internet!

Conspiracy Theory #13 a-1: The Google Quest for World Domination.

OK, maybe I’m exaggerating a little bit, but not much.
If you jump to the most interesting, least provable conclusion, all circumspect and hearsay evidence points to Google upsetting the existing Telco infrastructure and business models in the coming years. The purchase of Gizmo5 & rolling it into Google Voice, patents for sea-going data centres, white space lobbying, and the emergence of Google Wave all point to traditional phone lines & services becoming redundant. In the 21st century, all businesses are data businesses, whether they understand it or not. Google does.

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