I kind of agree with him. Nice post.

That one was.
My point: if a non Alist blogger sees this material in this context and takes note of the (non)attention, Scoble’s “I love Twitter” a few minutes ago won’t thaw the chill.

At 14 I read the dance floor the way I would many (not so many) years later read a tavern when I was playing pool for money. (Sometimes serious money. But not often. See “The Hustler” and Paul Newman’s line, “Hard part isn’t winning the money. Hard part is leaving the room alive.” heh)
I left the monastery to come back.
I came back only after having been at the monastery.
In an arrogant mode I’d say, “And I’m supposed to learn /what/ here?!” (Alex? 2 intrusive popups on your site? You? I don’t think that’s who you are. First because I don’t think you’re the invasive sort. But second, and more, I think you’re one who’s likely to tweak tech the way effective tech should be tweaked.)
In a Zen mode I’d say *KWATZ!!* … which is kinda/sorta the samurai version of “And the horse you rode in on!!”

For anyone outside the loop what we call “social media” is nothing short of manifest evidence that we, as a society, have lost our bearings.
That the “center cannot hold.“
And I’m sure you know what’s loosed …
… and what’s drowned.

best of luck
–ben

p.s. I need $$$ involvement because I need buy-in … so that some other hustler can have his eye on the door i.e. be protective of the IP. I know why I’ve worked at this since fall of 1975. I don’t lie awake rationalizing it to myself; I wake up in the morning (day after day, week after week, month in month out, for well over 30 years) thinking about the next touch I will apply to glasperlenspiel. Now, really … I’ll entertain $$$ to further that. But to flirt as though a 15yr old valley girl? heh … nope! *grin*