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I was evangalising Flickr yesterday actually when I was doing a presentation myself on Mendelian Genetics.
Everyone asked me after class: "Dude... what the hell website is that; you got to link me up!"
Then when I showed about 10 people Digg during lunch yesterday, most of them didn't care because it was mostly technology news. I bet if you had a digg for what they cared about then they would definitly care.
The term "blog" must be an old people thing or something because when that word left my mouth my fellow peers were questioning what that word meant. Yet when I said "You guys know... an online journal" Then it instantly clicked. Practically everyone said "Oh yea I have an online journal!"
I enjoy sitting closer to the back of the classrom, just so I can see the entire extra wide white board without having to twist my neck. Now I'm not saying I invade privacy but I do a quick glance and see what everyone with a laptop (about 20 people) are doing while the teacher is lecturing. Everyone is alt+tabbing between some IM client or another, MySpace, and FaceBook.
The rules of the social world are changing right before us. I admit even I have had a few dates with girls that have started with mere conversations on the internet. It's funny too because we link each other to our blogs, excuse me online journals, and I get the same thing all the time "Why are you a biology major?!"
Podcast might as well be a term in Japenese to these people, yet when I was hanging out with my friend (Age 20) and his brother (Age 16) he immediatly knew what podcasts were. I guess the younger crowd is getting it faster, or my older friend is a stoner of some sort I can't really tell :P.
The sad reality of the situation is my real world... is the online world. And this is becoming the truth for lots of people. We meet similar people like ourselves on the internet and build strong strong relationships. Kind of scary when you think about it. 10 years ago you would've been called crazy, but now with people trading pictures, and even video with ease.... your alias is a lot more than just a few words, you have a face and personality attached to it.
With regard to bloggers and the new MS products there's probably a very simple explanation behind it. A lot of us don't use MS products that much or simply cannot get excited by a product launch - unless of course you were referring to MS bloggers?
We live, eat, breath and blog about VS/SQL/BizTalk almost every day and we don't work for MS!
We even know who Lee (Dude) Graber is!
I tell people about firefox, flickr, wordpress, rss and they all get it. They understand, but just can't be bothered to join or whatever :-)
By the way, last week I got stuck in a snow induced traffic jam. What I wanted to do was from my car browse google maps (or microsoft) and see who was tagging the local roads with 'accident' 'snow' 'passable' and the time they tagged them.
Then browse any police or army official warnings by location. Filter out any local retail adverts (apart from hot tea and coffee shops) and also see where my family members were....
When is this going to be possible?
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Maybe if Microsoft got around to actually delivering the complimentary copies of VS Professional, SQL Server Standard and Biztalk Server Developer Edition promised at the events it would give people a chance to start using them, and therefore talking about them ...
Well, that in itself is my example of a disconnect! (No sh1t most people don't use RSS; and SQL, etc...?)Jesus, haven't we been telling you this for 2-3 years? That you're living in your own world!
You should have been HERE, they handed out thousands of coppies!
"This is a characteristic of the giddy kind of people who define themselves through computer-mediated relationships. They get terribly excited about people just like themselves using the same software, when all that bounces back from these dead phosphorous LCD screens is something that approximates their own reflection, and isolation..." (The Register)
In the Blogosphere, everyone knows who you and Steve Gilmore are and listens to what you two say. You both have a large audience.
In real life, your total online audience accounts for such a small percentage of the population of any major city in the U.S. that it's completely insignificant. Plus, no one knows who the heck you two are. ;)
I mean, you have what 300,000 unique vists to your page per day? Maybe more, maybe less. That's not even the population of my hometown of Wichita, KS. You guys are big fish in tiny, miniscule little ponds online. :)
Even if each unique visitor your two have tells 10 friends what you've said you're still not close to the population of the greater New Jersey area, let alone the U.S. or the world.
sure the a-listers arent blogging about this, but the "everyman" definitly is. Here's a collection of some posts from the last few days following our launch activities
My Night Out at the Launch Party
http://codebetter.com/blogs/geoff.appleby/archi...
VS2005 Launch Party
http://analystdeveloper.com/blogs/gurkaneng/arc...
Let the launch begin
http://www.deepakkapoor.net/PermaLink,guid,a8c1...
Melbourne’s Ready Launch ‘05
http://will.id.au/blog/archive/2005/11/29/melbo...
When numbers and impact are down, claim "a better quality" of audience.
When numbers low, claim quality. When numbers high, claim it's gone mainstream. No matter what the outcome, you can never lose.
I'm not currently in the US, unfortunately, and we residents of Europe seem to be very much an afterthought in Microsoft's reckoning. All we got were "appreciation vouchers" which we were supposed to go to some website to enter in, and here I am 2 weeks afterwards and I still haven't seen anything - talk about an effective way to ruin an effort at mindshare cultivation ...
Maybe if he did a "men and women of Microsoft" Playboy feature each day?