The Speed of Innovation - How Fast is Too Fast?

To Blog, Podcast or Vblog - That is the question...

Last night I went to bed thinking about a question I saw in Linked In the other day. "What do you feel about video resumes?" I started to think what my video resume would look like. I also thought about the video resume Reece Witherspoon sent in for her Harvard Law application.

I started to think about actually scripting my "video resume". Where I would shoot the scenes, what I would say, how long it should be, what things would the employer be looking for, creativity, directness, multiple talents, who knows really.

I keep hearing about all of this Web 2.0 mumbo jumbo too. Sites like, Facebook, Galery, Flicker, Blogger, YouTupe, Linked In, MySpace, Mynt, the list goes on. How much time do I really have to devote to these sites and investigate which one is better. How many of you get the latest Wired magazine and start bookmarking pages that reference web sites we can't live without? I know I do. At then when I finally have time to look at them, I have forgotten why I couldn't live without them.

Its funny, in the mid 90's people said that the internet would build social barriers for people where we would never meet, just talk to each other behind a computer screen. Then I see Bill Gates in an interview saying how the web has opened up our world of friends and who we can stay in touch with. I know my facebook page has 55 friends and Linked In I have over 500 connections, but what does it all mean?

At some point I think we all need to focus on "the person" and ask ourselves what do we really want / need? What do you want out of life. I ask myself this question. I now only stick with one "on line community", I use Linked In for work related activity, I love my iPod so I down load a lot of pod casts from Slash dot and the Discovery channel and that is about it. The rest of the time I think I need to work on being good at my job and time for my well being, like talking with people, getting some exercise and reading something other than this flat glowing screen.

Anyway, that is just my opinion. I don't see innovation slowing it's pace and at some point I am going have to be up on "all this new technology" because I am sure my kids will be and I don't want to have the FBI at my door telling me my kid just re-routed the space shuttle from his home computer (Dennis Miller reference). So, I will continue to read Wired to see where I may need to be looking next.

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