Kicking and Screaming...

I have been an avid user of the 'tubes since the www came to be. I used to be up on the latest goings on of the interwebs, and still consider myself to be a "with it" net nerd. I have resisted much of Web 2.0 crap because well it seemed just like re-marketing of existing tools to cash in. Social Networking, Blogs, Collaborative sites, etc... All seem like variations of BBS', message boards, chat rooms, etc... So I resisted. I never had a MySpace account. I only recently started using Facebook, and now I am starting to blog. So what caused the change of heart?

My iPhone.

The iPhone was the first smartphone that ever made sense to me, and I have owned several. 10 years ago the tech wonks would talk about convergence of technologies into one device. The iPhone is that device. It changed the game and now all of the mobile makers are playing catch-up. I like having it all in one device. I am writing this on my Mac which also runs Windows and Linux (using Parallels). So the idea of a phone that ties all of the stuff I use, iPod, Web, Email, IM, text messaging, with the wide world of the App Store and what that opens up to me, well it was too much for me to resist.

I was a Web 2.0 luddite, but that little phone I am never without opened the door and showed that there is actually some useful shit out there that I have been ignoring cause my message boards were good enough for social networking and sharing my uninvited thoughts with the fellow citizens of the tubes. No more, I now embrace it, cause it is so easy to do on my iPhone, and with my iPhone it just makes sense. I can't really explain it more than that.

My first ever update on Facebook was an explanation that I was dragged kicking and screaming to it by my wife. I came to start a blog on my own, but internally there was definitely some kicking and screaming. That will be kind of a theme with my blog. Opening up to the world out there, IRL and on the tubes. I always thought I was too cool to jump on the latest trends, but sometimes they are worth checking out. Here we can check them out and blast em if they suck or praise them when they don't. Later...