The Blogosphere Evolves
Rob Scoble joins Dave Winer, venting his frustration with fame and celebrity. Be honest, most folks think, “boo hoo,” when they read posts like these. Everyone wants to be famous, and those that “make it” spend the rest of their days complaining about a lack of privacy. The truth is, a lot of people don’t handle fame well. Why do you think half of the actors and musicians are strung out? Aside from the culture of those occupations, drugs become a means of escape from the stresses of everyone always wanting something from you.
On a personal level, I like Rob and I’m sure he’ll get through this fine, but at the macro level I’m really more interested in what’s causing all of this stress. We are now reaching our first level of critical mass where individuals are becoming overwhelmed because there is a fantastic breakthrough of thought happening. For example, I can’t even count the number of RSS readers and variants that I’ve seen come through RSS Compendium in the past two weeks. Not that I’m in the market for feed readers, but it’s amazing how much activity is going on. This is an exciting, grassroots explosion of thoughts and applications. Individuals, not necessarily companies, are leading the way with innovative technologies and ideas.
This is an exciting time for me. I’ve been riding the rush of adrenaline from this wave of creative thoughts. I’ve had more ideas in the past six months than I’ve had in the past five years. I’m sorry to see some folks getting overwhelmed by the hype and marketing, but it encourages me to know that so many people are finding so many great things to hype and market.
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