Kluster & Knews
I read about Kluster a few months ago and happened on the site again today from their new project, knewsroom. After viewing the video on Kluster about what’s been going on with the company, knewsroom makes sense. Kluster’s new tagline is “stop telling people what’s new, and starting asking them what’s next”. Knewsroom is challenging anyone, and giving them the ability (and money!) to create news. How appropriate is this as we hear “crowdsourced” over and over and OVER again.
I still am not sure what kind of service they provide, but I like the idea and it makes sense completely with how we are getting our news and information. My info is pushed to me via Google Reader. The “news” I find, I pass on to my friends and we create our own version of NBC Nightly news. But will this catch on? Will people take the bait and actually try creating some knews? I’m definitely going to keep a close eye on this.
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I know the benefits of many activities that we as humans should participate in to maintain a healthy lifestyle: exercise, healthy eating, interacting with friends and relatives, intellectual stimulation like reading, writing, playing Wii (yeah!), or Sudoku…
Where does blogging fit in? I come across many things throughout the day to blog about, as I’ve posted before. Maybe I should dedicate this my blogging 15 minutes. From 11:00pm-11:15pm every other night I will blog.
One of my oldest, and not necessarily closest, friends, Brian… his father died on Saturday morning. Although I’ve known him and his family for about 20 years, we were never super close. Neighbors. We exchanged presents on Christmas morning… had a slight feud going over Christmas lights. We built tree forts, played war, hockey on the pond when it froze… threw apples at each other from their crab apple tree. His father was a NYC fire fighter for 40 years. 40 years. 26 of his men died during 911. He stayed there for 6 months trying to find them.
He retired to counseling families of 911 and to meals on wheels. He was misdiagnosed earlier last year with some form of diabetes. He had pancreatic cancer.
I am so sorry for this loss of such a great man. Rest in peace, Jeremiah Hawe.
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Want vs. need
I feel like I need to blog. I feel like about a dozen ideas pop into my head throughout the day and I just want to blog about it. The problem? I’m at work at my full-time job. Well, that’s not really a problem because that’s where I’m getting the ideas to blog about. I think I’ll do it later when I get home from work. And then I walk in the door, throw down my stuff, let out a huge sigh, and pour myself a glass of wine. Then I’m making dinner and then I’ve committed my attention to television. Now it’s 11pm and I’m exhausted and ready for bed. So I walk in my room and there it is. My laptop. GLARING AT ME. “Write woman, write!”. But instead I take a sip of water, find some reading material, read 3 paragraphs, and pass out. Hello 7am. Fuck.
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So I started this blog…
And many people do this. After all, there are over 70 million blogs on the internet. So who did I think I was? I think my problem is that I have already built up blogging. I’ve built it up like an online journal and my problem is that I’m consumed by the fact that someone may actually read it. And what happens then? THEN I’m forced to put out quality content. Oh the pressure! People start blogs for many reasons. I’m starting a blog, because, like many, I feel like I have a lot to say. I feel like I have things to say that people will actually be interested in. OK, right now it’s kind of personal but I don’t think it’s going to be like that. I think I’ll find my groove.
My goal is to aggregate the content that I read. I want to make it into something cooler. I don’t just want to post links. I want to post links with meaning. I don’t want to barf up every fucking “web 2.0″ offering that comes up. I want to make this useful.
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This is it (the gist)
TechieLez is not a statement. It’s not going to say that there’s a link between technology and lesbianism. It’s just a girl, interested in the latest ‘thing’, dishing about what she loves, which happens to be women and technology; in that order. I don’t think people are taking advantage of all that the internet, in particular, is offering them. Gina Trapani, a blogger idol of mine, wrote a book, Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day and she’s right on the money. Things like using disposable email addresses instead of clogging up your Gmail flow with your friends, automatically backing up your files, tagging photos on Flickr. You can have a free personal assistant, get people to bid on tasks like taking out your trash, or even have a personal financial analyst at your service 24/7 all for the price of….. zero dollars; well, actually, the price of an internet connection. But most of us are not taking advantage of it. Maybe because of the proliferation of these web 2.0 offerings. I mean, there’s this woman, Emily Change (eHub), whose blog is entirely dedicated to unveiling these new services, companies, or trends. But they come and go and come and go and COME AND GO. My friends can’t keep up with the links I send them, and probably don’t want to. I don’t want to. Everyone thinks it’s enough to have a cell phone but are lost without it. What’s your backup plan? What’s your MacGyver escape route? Just today I found a cell phone on my train seat on Metro North and thought ‘FUCK, I’m so glad this isn’t me! What can I do to make this person’s life not SUCK for a few days?!?’ So this is about thinking about your life, the nitty gritty, as they say, and thinking about those few applications that you could actually use to make a difference in your life. May it be Don’t forget the Milk, Facebook, Jott, Grand Central… etc etc etc. Read what I write, think about what you do and who you do it with, and, for peet’s sake, use some of this stuff! Before you pay for something, check the internet! Before you check out on eBags.com, Google a discount code! Please, people, please! It’s all there for the taking.
So this is the gist. Oh, and I’ll most likely drop in some things about my love life/family life just cause.
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