The digital lifestyle has arrived; all those bits and bites are feeding the fires of our imagination. We have captured music and photos on our hard drives, sent email around the world and received replies. Now we’re blogging and blogging is about having a conversation, we are social animals and need conversation (an exchange of information) to grow. I remember back in collage having hundreds of conversations everyday, access to so many like minded people was invigorating and truly educational.
Bill Gates at CES said; “So if you look at what's going on with e-mail, instant messaging, blogging communities, and now this live entertainment, if we can integrate all that and make it seamless so you can see a person's presence across that, invite them to do different things, then we will have created something that's quite phenomenal”.
Yes, this is quite phenomenal and Bill was at his best at CES when he wasn’t hawking Windows but talking about how our lives have changed. We would love to have Bill Gates blogging, we need to hear his voice in our conversation.
The Bill Gates we have come to know has been filtered by PR agencies or cut and diced by a hack journalist, too often he is defined only by his enemies.
In Cnet this week Bill said; “I've toyed with doing a blog myself, but I don't want to be one of those people who start and then don't finish it, and again I'm thinking maybe I could do one a month or one every six weeks--something like that”.
I get those emails you send Bill, that’s not blogging. I can understand Bill’s apprehension about beginning a blog, one comment taken the wrong way could cause MSFT to drop 6 percent. Another line of his blog could result in hundreds of paragraphs in the frenzied Tabloid Tech press which have become just gossip and rumor mills.
We need to hear a real voice, mass communication today is full of double speak, lies, damn lies, and statistics; fair is foul and foul is fair. We need ideas and sparks of inspiration that could come from the exchanges expressed in our blogs.
Young people need heroes, role models to inspire them to do amazing things. In the day of instant gratification we need to build a lasting legend for a new century.