assorted weblinks...

The first one, that I should have put up in the getting out there posting, is the URL to my new bio on the Perley-Robertson HIll & McDougall Website. I have to admit that the photo isn't half bad.

The other thing of note is that the first candidate for the Liberal nomination in Ottawa Centre to get a nomination website up is Scott Bradley. If I notice that other people have websites go up, I'll post them too. But for now, Scott is the first out of the gate. Nice site too.

It's like anti-matter meeting matter....

See the clever title? Just the opposite of the one below. Why? Because last time it was Colbert on O'Reilly. This time, it's O'Reilly on Colbert.



This one is courtesy of YouTube. If it gets taken away, let me know and I'll try to find it again. Then again, if it gets taken away, why don't you look for it yourself and then email me to let me know. I'm lazy that way.

It's like matter meeting anti-matter....

Stephen Colbert was on Bill O'Reilly's No Spin Zone. As if to highlight the fact that he just doesn't get it, Bill has a panel on afterwards to analyze why Colbert is popular. For those of you who missed it, here it is again, in all of it's glory courtesy of google (ok, now it's courtesy of YouTube since Google seems to be sending everything to YouTube).



When I find Bill's appearance on Colbert's show, I'll post it too...

getting out there...

My friend Jason taught me a new phrase.

" fill_in_the_blank is for old people." It's apparently a phrase used to denigrate a technology as antiquated. So "Rotary dial telephones are for old people" makes fun of rotary dial phones. Got it? Good.

So here's my theory. Email is for old people. Gone is the charm of the internet, when not quite everyone had a couple of email addresses. Now I have trouble keeping it all straight. I've got email addresses that I use when I want to be found, email addresses that I use when I want to get the email, but don't trust that it won't result in spam, and on and on it goes. Thankfully the nice people at sxip came up with sxipper to keep me straight on that front.

That's more than just a plug for a cool app. It's a sidetracking statement. It doesn't change the fact that I'm ready to move on from thinking of email as the best way of managing things. I really wish that I could get people to just sign up for RSS feeds of a blog so that I didn't need to get a flood of crappy me-too emails. Then I wouldn't need to remind people to email my personal account instead of the office one. I wouldn't get interrupted by email directed to a group. A blog or message board is so much easier to use than having a ridiculous number of email messages bouncing around. For crying out loud, we can't even get everyone email address correct. And when we do, some nitwit doesn't bother using the new list. It's incredibly annoying for me to think that I hang out with smart people who sometimes don't get that email isn't the answer to everything.

So here's the plan. I'm going to stop thinking of email as the killer-app of the Internet. It was. But it won't be the killer app of Web 2.0. I'm not sure what it will be, but I'm going to start getting ready for it.

So here's the start of it... I'm linking the blog to Technorati. I'm going to go out and get a myspace account. I'm going to start mining the contacts available to me on LinkedIn. All that jazz.

So, for those of you who want to find me, here you go. Link to me. Join me in a community online. We're going to change the world (or at least our little part of it).


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