Broadcasting Brain

In the face of all of the navel-gazing drama and headlines from the past few days, how’s a little guy to compete, even if he does have a green glowing brain?

Enter the following:

Jason Calacanis is giving up blogging (or so he says)

Mathew Ingram calls BS on Jason Calacanis’s retirement press release

So does Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests

Sarah in Tampa says Jason has a point and that we shouldn’t focus so much on fame and fortune

Jim Kukral says that the blogging A-List is dead (yet Technorati isn’t doing a 404…)

Robert Scoble weighs in and provides an excellent, succinct analysis of the Calacanis swan song

Good old Steven Hodson gets cranky on a regular basis and thank goodness

Colin Walker asks what you are going to do with social media after escaping the echo chamber AND what role are we playing?

(I’m not even going to touch the Feldman/Corvida/Sutton stories - they’ve been well covered to this point and my hope is that we all get to a point where we follow the Golden Rule more faithfully, although I must admit that I was impressed as hell by Steve Spalding’s post on the whole matter.)

And then, to top it all off, my Q&A guest Greg Davies had the temerity to… to… to… to point out the obvious yesterday:

Yes. “Social Media” is a myth. It’s just a buzz word like “Web 2.0? and “Semantic Web”. Let’s call it by it’s real name: The Internet.

Why, it’s enough to make one want to blog about a non-existent cat. Which is what blogging and stuff was creating for, right? To talk about the things that interest us! Even when they aren’t real!

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This is my blog. It is like a continuing op-ed (opinion editorial) column in the newspaper that is the Internet or the World Wide Web. I’m not looking to downsize my audience as Jason Calacanis says that he wants to do, or else it would just be me and the non-existent cat (I’ll call it NEC to save typing out the entire thing) in a short period of time.

I’m not here to teach anyone anything because, quite honestly, I’m learning as I go. I’ll give opinions, thoughts, and links to interesting things, but I’m flailing around in the dark like a lot of other people. I get some satisfaction out of doing this and with connecting with other people via the blog or the other Web services that I use.

Plus I don’t have to beg an editor to give me space in his or her publication (though the ones who have are pretty good about it, thanks).

That’s worth thinking about, you know. We’ve always been able to stand on soapboxes at street corners and speak our minds. For the past few hundred years we’ve been able to distribute pamphlets and letters to hordes of people in our parts of the world. And, of course, there’s community TV and radio.

But we’ve never had the opportunity to quickly, cheaply, and easily broadcast to millions of people like we’ve had in the past decade. And to hear back from them, wherever they are!

It’s amazing stuff.

Why not do something worthwhile with it?

The NEC thinks so, too.

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