“You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for.” – Tim Berners-Lee

The citation is from the BBC Online.
Tim (the original creator of the internet in 1989) was speaking in favor of net neutrality, or not having a “for pay” area of the internet. I am in favor of that too, and posted a video blog about it.

I also believe that we are all connected. And that we are divine beings having a human experience, It is part of the game group think right now to believe that human=less than divine. But I choose not to buy into that.

What is so cool about the internet is this synchronicity Tim talks about. I believe that actually our souls are communicating underneath the technical platform of the internet, to create this synchronicity. I believe our souls have the ability to communicate without the internet, but having the internet, or a so-called plausible way for people to find each other across widely diverse means, is like a fast track for us to integrate and then implement this knowledge regarding soul to soul communication.

With a forward time-stamped article. Wondering when the TB hits the other site, if I publish to a future time??

Go figure. Blogging is where the action is.

We are having a lot of fun at Technorati.

There’s a new blogger on the block. And it’s a woman! Not that that matters, but it somehow does. I mean there are plenty of women in technology, yet the math still works out that there are far more men as bloggers, podcasters, coders, etc.

Mary Schmidt and I met at a tech venture capital meeting a few years ago. She became a client of ours at Bare Feet Studios, and we have also become friends with a joint membership in the rant and rave club.

I’m betting she’ll make a great blogger. Why? She’s got loads of opinions, brains to match, and (probably) enough time to keep it alive. As for me, I just get to take credit for being the first to link to Mary!

Visit her brand spankin’ new blog here:
Mary Schmidt

Remember that phrase – the digital divide? It was popular a few years ago as it appeared that middle to upper class urbanites were embracing technology easier, faster, and cheaper than those in rural areas.

Guess what? The real divide is happening right here at home, in small and large business america! The digerati have formed their own language, customs, and of course technology – and the rest of the masses are slipping slowly behind, almost completely unaware.

When people who work in IT still don’t know about the reams of evidence against the security flaws of IE and preach, “Hey, stick with Microsoft and you’ll be fine!” I am stunned.

When people who use the internet every day at work, still don’t know what “Favorites” are or what tabbed browsing is or even how to get to their own web site without typing it into Google, I start to get depressed.

When I get emails after announcing free tech support sessions at a nearby internet cafe, asking “What is wi fi?” I start to think there is a serious problem developing. These are all educated people I am talking about, yet they are absent what I consider fundamental skills for working in the knowledge age.

It’s easy to fall back on one of my old rants – we live in a world starved of adequate training. Which is true.

But I sense the underlying issue includes a tremendous sense of overwhelm – knowledge is being created faster than we have learned how to integrate it. And our good friend (I mean that sincerely!) – Denial – is how we cope.

I fly a lot. I love printing my boarding pass at home pre-flight. I can change my seat – better ones often open up at the last 24 hours – and I get to skip one of the nasty lines at the airport. Even in such digital centers as SFO, I have never seen anyone else with a do it yuourself boarding pass. The airlines in this case have created a great system to help them and us – yet hardly anyone is using it. Why?

I am new to blogging, despite having written hundreds of blog threads in my head over the past few years – just never got around to getting them on virtual paper. Too busy to set one up…surfing web sites when I am brain dead, and burnt out from work, life, etc. Only to go to bed and then my inner genius comes alive! I have thoughts I think are brilliant or useful or that are just lonely for another mind to agree with them.

So then I finally set up this blog—detemined to just write and not worry about design for a while—which I have done a decent job at. I mean, who’s counting a little background color change and a few font styles? Certainly not me. As a recovering perfectionist AND a recovering someone-who-cares what-others-think person, that’s a challenge.

Of course design DOES affect the words on the page, but I am just trying to focus on my admin. That is where I write and it is quite pleasing actually.

The real obstacles are more deeply rooted in the psyche. I use the general third person psyche, as I know I am not the only one who feels ambivalent about writing by myself for an unknown audience of none to a few billion. (It’s gonna be a while before everyone has internet access…) It is a curious pull —this desire to take what used to be thought of as something personal and make it very public, theoretically.

Personal thoughts that used to go in a DIARY. Comes with lock and key. Death threats to anyone who would open it without permission. Now, “Hey, world! Guess what I am thinking?”

So after my fist two essentially test articles, my inner critic stepped in and kept me away. Guess it’s not a totally bad thing as the last thing the world needs in more pretentious preacher who thinks she knows it all. And I can be that way some days.

My answer to the question, “Why blog?” for today: the drive comes from the loneliness; those thoughts of mine that are seeking like-minded ones.