Following a rather wet bank holiday week-end here in Ireland, it is finally working day Tuesday and the weather seems to be brightening up. Great. Just in time as we head back indoors into the office. Well timed. We wouldn't want to get any of that awful suntan stuff now would we? I think this is part of the Health and Safety conspiracy of the EU nanny state. They have taken control of the weather and send the sun indoors when we head outdoors to ensure we have sufficient sun radiation protection. This is Big Brother gone BIG! George Orwell, 1984, eat your heart out.
Had a diverse week-end. Our local parish priest (Catholic) is busy doing a PhD in Dublin and is looking at how the Catholic Church can/should tap into the use of the earthly power of the good old WWW to tap into the youth market. Helped him with some reviews and comments. I think it is a great idea. There is so much rubbish out there that it would be great to get some good to balance it out!
Have been catching up with all my podcasts. As you may know (if you have been reading this blog for a while), one of my favourite podcasts is TWiT with Leo Laporte. I have just finished listening to episodes 96 to 99, and they are getting more and more chatty and longer and longer and longer.... Leo seems to forget that podcasts are for people with shorter attention span. We all suffer from WADS (WWW Attention span Deficit Syndrome), that leads to that well known modern entertainment habit of 'snack culture'. 50 minutes plus for a podcast is getting right up to the limit of my attention span and time available to listen to it.
Anyhow, that is my gripe for the day.
Found something interesting on the web, that I suppose fits right in with the singles scene of today (I am happily married - or at least I am under the impression I am. I trust my wife has a similar impression). Going this way out. It is a site for local events where people can get invited to events. Perhaps the B,C & D-list of events for people who are not on the A-list?... :-) It is only for Boston, New York and San Francisco at present. In Dublin you have the Event Guide, that is issued weekly in hard copy, and of course we have all seen the trusty old Where magazine in hotel lobbies when we travel. So, it seems that, in addition to sites like Yelp, MenuPages.ie and MenuPages.com, there are different levels of entertainment guides, from those for the more mature set, to those for the young and younger at heart to the latest social scene interactive party animal stuff such as Going! Well, if you look at Going, and it is VERY local at present, and you look at something more mature such as Where Magazine, it would be great to have a Where with all the locations they cover, but with 2 choices - Fuddy Duddy staid (for me...) and Party Animal (the Going crowd)? I like the Where Magazine style, but I think something like Going has a lot of mileage. It fits into the whole Twitter and Jaiku scene with local presence messaging through nano-blogging. I can certainly see the mix working. If you're into Jaiku and Twitter, you could well enjoy Going.
So, the answer to the question iss that social can be VERY social indeed! I wonder if they ever sleep?.......
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