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Jaime is my friend, but also a bastard. After telling him one day that I don't read blogs, he replied "So you hate knowledge?" Oh hardy har... bastard. Not reading blogs means I hate knowledge? No! It means I hate bullshit!!

Admittedly, my aversion to blogs is a knee jerk reaction of my experiences growing up with the web in the 90s, and all the retarded web pages with animated gifs, favourite links and basically HEY LOOK AT ME MUM I'M ON TELLY kind of amazement that I'm broadcasting to millions and millions of viewers. But Jaime also lent me a book - Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. I'm still reading it, but it's very interesting, very very interesting in fact. The book is about how modern communication technologies are revolutionizing human social interaction - how people can now form their own social revolutions without operational overheads, how people can share ideas with like-minded individuals, how the internet affects publishing of media in today's age. Anyway, I'm still reading it and I'm doing a shit job of describing it, so I will quote:

...Who would want to be a publisher with only a dozen readers? It's also easy to see why the audience for most most user-generated content is so small, filled as it is with narrow, spelling-challenged observations about going to the mall and picking out clothes for Dixon. And it's easy to deride this sort of thing as self-absorbed publishing - why would anyone put such drivel ou in public?

It's simple. They're not talking to you.

Well, indeed! So needless to say, this book is changing my opinions about blogging and information sharing. I'm admittedly "old fashioned" (i.e. young 30s) and think things like facebook and myspace are stupid and believe in 'real' encounters with people (yes I'm on facebook *sigh*). But maybe Mr Shirky has a point. Maybe somebody does want to read my drivel. And if not, I'm not talking to you, and I will force feed my drivel/knowledge to Jaime in this most heinous of experiments - the output of my brain.

About me? I am an Australian (what that means I don't know) living in New York City working in IT. This is definitely boring and most certainly drivel. However I cycle to work almost everyday on a folding Dahon MU SL, am actively vegan, try to have some spiritual aspect to my life and love fucked up electronic music. So perhaps some of this is potentially less drivelsome, and maybe even of interest to possibly three or four people! Maybe the experience of me purchasing a pair of vegan shoes will be of benefit to somebody else! Although I highly doubt it. Hence begins the experiment.

The spelling challenged nature of this blog is due course for an Australian having lived in Canada and the U.S. not really knowing which form of 'English' he speaketh anymore.