2007 December 28

Over 2007 I’ve noticed an interesting phenomena in the blogosphere: an increasing number of daily posts. Some people do "posts ‘o links" which are just a bunch of things they think are interesting and are non-posts as far as I’m concerned. Others do 3, 4 or 5 posts per day (e.g., Scoble, Chris Pirillo) and some do 10 or more per day (e.g., Treehugger, Mashable).

I read/skim them (and 157 other bloggers and 50 other feeds for roughly 1,500 articles per day) and have discovered I’m feeling increasingly fatigued by any of them individually. One or two meaningful posts are good….five or ten is overkill. Especially since most of the posts are metaphorically nice big hamburger buns but inside is a burger the size of a dime since they’re light on content (IMHO).

When does a blog move from a chronological series of event writings to a new magazine type of format? What is the optimal number of daily posts? Or is it quality vs. quantity? "Best of" or compilations of links are of little value to me or are the "feature of the day" sorts of posts. Let me know what you think…

Why we need a tech-savvy president

Whether or not you believe that there is an inexorable and exponential growth in business, communications, social, cultural and political processes being mapped to the Internet — and a simultaneous disruption along with innovation occurring worldwide — one thing is clear: we’re living in an unprecedented time of accelerating change and the global network called the internet is at the heart of it.

This accelerating change is why we must have someone in the oval office that has an intuitive understanding of how the internet is shifting much of what we do, exploding knowledge and providing the building blocks of innovation, bringing a level of transparency to governmental and corporate actions never before seen, while flattening the world faster than you can say “Thomas Friedman“.

John McCain seems to be rising in the polls for the GOP nomination and yet I’m troubled by several instances where he’s made it clear he’s a neo-Luddite or just plain clueless. This Fortune archived article entitled, “How I Work” from March of 2006 is one of those:

I read my e-mails, but I don’t write any. I’m a Neanderthal–I don’t even type. I do have rudimentary capabilities to call up some websites, like the New York Times online, that sort of stuff. No laptop. No PalmPilot. I prefer my schedule on notecards, which I keep in my jacket pocket. But my wife has enormous capability. Whenever I want something I ask her to do it. She’s just a wizard. She even does my boarding passes–people can do that now. When we go to the movies, she gets the tickets ahead of time. It’s incredible.

Wow! You mean she can go to an airline web site, check in and print a boarding pass? Buy movie tickets online? I’ll bet she can even use that there Google thingy. Wizard indeed.

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