I really enjoy being ever-so-slightly ahead of the curve on trends (but not fads…as my 16 year old daughter will be happy to point out since she submits that I dress “like an old man”). After observing in early 2004 that what was going on with blogs was accelerating — and that this new way of engaging people in driving opinions, media and grassroots efforts online was going to change communications and human connections in new and fundamental ways — I got in the game with my own blog in December. I believe you have to live something experientially to truly build an intuitive understanding of a technology, movement or opportunity.

Besides straight blogs with text and images, I’ve really been enamored with the acceleration in podcasting (and, I believe quite soon, videocasting in some new form) and am thinking about this a lot every day. The compression in cost around enabling technologies and tools that are quite high quality (3-chip camcorders, audio recorders, computer software, multi-megapixel digital cameras, mobile phones with cameras) along with new web offerings (Typepad, Blogger, iPodder, Audioblog, Flickr) is driving A LOT of innovation in this space. [Read more...]