Happy 2005! One of the things I noticed in 2004 is the growing disconnect between what’s hot with the cool kids online and what the majority of people online actually have heard about and understand. This year I’ll try to write posts explaining what these cool things are and why they’re cool/important/useful. My goal is to write a persuasive argument for my parents to, if not try the technology in question, at least understand it.
I’ll be posting them in the What’s the Deal category, which I hope will allow me to address the quality of airline food when the time comes. My first post in the series is about blogging, and I hope to cover wikis, RSS, del.icio.us, BitTorrent and more.
Update: I picked blogging as my first topic. I figured “I’ll just write a quick overview of blogging” which is kind of like saying “I’ll just write a quick overview of every aspect of Roman society and culture.” I need to stop myself whenever I use the modifier “just.” I’ve got it written but it’s an incredible act of hubris on my part to say “this is blogging” so I keep rewriting. Sorry for the delay.
3 responses to “What’s the Deal?”
Hey, this is a great idea. I’m looking fowards to the first installment. 🙂
Will you sound like Andy Rooney when you do them?
“what’s the deal with all this podcasting anyway? Are they planting beans?”
It’s ten days already!