LiveJournal should have been shut down along with GeoCities.

Seth offers perfect advice for anyone who suddenly realizes what year it is.

Nope.

A very short list of things I do well, and a longer list of things I need help with. Any ideas or suggestions?

Dear Facebook Friends:

Shut up.

I got a RT from the “Real” Microsoft. You can too.

If you start paying attention to all the blogs, the tweets, the updates, the articles, the e-books, the workshops, the seminars, the newsletters, the videos, the podcasts, the lifestreams, and every other form of new media madness, you’ll be told (and start to believe, mind you) that in order to become a Thought Leader you have to blog and tweet and update and write articles and ebooks and run workshops and seminars and send out newsletters and record videos and podcasts and lifestreams and generally go completely mad with new media.

Well… Maybe.

Blogging is dead. Myspace is dead. Even Ebay is dead. Nobody is using Internet Explorer. Nobody reads books anymore. Everybody is on twitter. Everybody has an iPhone. No, wait- you should be lifestreaming. No, wait- you’ll be left behind if you don’t implant a chip directly into your brain that syndicates your sensory inputs, thoughts, sexual arousal state, and bladder/bowel contents to an RSS feeder running on Web 3.7 technology.

There is no requirement that anybody be at the forefront of things. Most people, in fact, are not at the forefront of things. While some people (you?) act like the whole world will fall into a black hole if they don’t take advantage of the newest Web 3.7 technology, other people are still happy living in the stone age (literal or figurative).

A wave of new businesses are being started, as people realize that they have the power to take control of their lives. What’s driving this trend? And what are the dangers?