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The dream is still alive!

1. Start a company,
2. Get aquired by Google, or Yahoo!, or some other larger company…
3. Profit!

(dodgeball.com was acquired by Google…)

Oh, with that Step 2. you’ll want to make sure it’s not a company you despise, whose only plan is to crush you because you present some sort of competiton to them, like say, Microsoft…

Now, while the dream for the creators of the company/service comes true, what about the users and consumers? It seems like every time something neat shows up, it ends up getting gobbled up by a larger company, so that in 10 years time, it will be true that there are 5 corporations that seems to own and control everything we see, hear, and think. The dream quickly becomes a nightmare when choice all but disappears… Oops, there I go getting all dystopian again! (Repeat after me: I’m a Happy Consumer! I’m a Happy Consumer!)

Tired: Fired for blogging… Wired: Fired for podcasting!

Being fired for blogging is so early 2000’s. (Heck, Cam pretty much did it in 1997!) Mark Pilgrim, Dooce, Troutgirl. Old News!

Now we have a Podcaster Fired Over Podcast; Too Naughty for South Carolina:

“If we’ve learned anything from this experience, it’s been to carefully choose an employer, if you plan to make controversial statements anywhere.”

What did we say about representing?

Hey, now that the future is near and it’s a whole new internets, we can await the day when someone who gets paid to blog (or podcast) gets fired for doing something else inappropriate. Won’t that be cool? I can see it now “Blogger Fired for [Insert Undesirable Behavior Here]” or something like that. Mark my words, it’ll happen…

What do yo get when you combine the Xbox 360 and Yahoo 360?

The Yaxboo 720?

Hmmm, maybe not. Though I hear they’re working on a game that simulates a blogwar between Jeremy Zawodny and Robert Scoble…

While the air was warm today (in the 80’s!) the lake was not (well below the 80’s!) We jumped in the lake today, after a canoe trip down the river, and I will warn you, it’s not ready. Really. Lake. Not. Warm. Enough. Wait…

That is all.

I think Ghost World is on my top ten list of favorite movies. (Note to self, update those lists!)

I mean with quotes like these, how could it not be?

Rebecca: This is so bad it’s almost good.
Enid: This is so bad it’s gone past good and back to bad again.

Seymour: I can’t relate to 99% of humanity.

Enid: If he’s so weird, why is he wearing Nikes?

How does an ordinary everyday quote become a favorite quote? I think that when you hear something that is very close to something you’ve previously said or thought, then it can easily become a favorite quote…

Anyway, if Ghost World is a movie that makes total sense to you, we might get along well…