Technically Speaking

Naked in Minnesota or the rather sexy term I came up with in my head for being without my laptop for the next 72 hours! I used this cool site and calculated it to be Four Hundred and Thirty Five days I have not been totally disconnected - or rather - my laptop has been accessible inside of 12-24 hours time.

That is how long I’ve been doing this Lookery thing. If you want to count my other start up adventure pre-Lookery, the good ol’ LC blog, we can up that number to Four Hundred and Ninety Seven days. If we want to go back further to like when I started this blog, etc - but we won’t. I think you the reader understands the point I’m trying to make.

Now I have been out of town during that time, and on vacation (a few times), and gone away for weekends. But I have always had access to my laptop before I left and after I arrived home from wherever I roamed. This time, all I have is my iPhone 3G for internet connectivity.

The reason I am not taking my laptop is I’m going to this place called - New Ulm, MN for my niece’s wedding on Saturday the 27th. I checked AT&T’s coverage map, and this place doesn’t have 3G. So much for waiting to buy the 3G version of the iPhone - back to Edge access! Not to mention my 3G WAN card will be useless!

To round up the no laptop coming with me and going naked - I have about 10 hours of driving over the weekend. The fact that a plane ticket to Minneapolis, MN is like stupid pricing really ticks me off. I can usually fly anywhere for cheap. Not Minneapolis! The drive from the STL is like 10 hours, and in order to cut some time off that, will be flying to Omaha, NE first and than driving another 5 hours. Hey, 1/2 of a 10 hour drive is better than doing that long drive through Iowa and back again another 10 hours on Sunday!

Technically Speaking: Right now I feel like it’s really Friday; even though in reality it’s only Thursday - but since I work for a start up - days of the week really have no meaning! Oh, and sure - technically speaking - I can access pretty much everything via my iPhone 3G - but I think for the next 72 hours - I may just surf the net on it, and play with the apps I have on there - and of course take the occasional phone call or SMS.

This was quite interesting seeing, the scramble to get the MySpace Music post up first.

But as we all know, MySpace Music launches tonight at 9pm pacific time!

If you are out of work and looking for a job, Digg apparently has them now with their new Series C round of funding that is close to $30 million.

That’s almost three times as much as Digg has raised so far, in two previous rounds of financing. Why so much?

My guess is to hire more people, pay for the new space in San Francisco, and other assorted things that Digg needs in order to be successful at what they do. What do they actually do or rather what is their product?

Technically Speaking, just felt like posting.

Congratulations are in order for Matt Marshall and VentureBeat for being recognized for content worthy enough to be syndicated in the New York Times. Along with GigaOm and RWW as well, congrats! This proves that old media is a dying breed, hanging on to what readership is left. Taking over the perceived mainstream media will not be an easy task.

Along with blogs being syndicated to mainstream media, we have places that offer video content by the buckets now. Why do we need a mainstream news show that only comes on at 5pm or 10pm at night anymore? We don’t. News, entertainment, and good writing is all available sans mainstream media. It’s about the people dictating to the media, and no longer the reverse. This is what democracy is about.

The change today only signals a small battle being won. More like a concession by the mainstream that bloggers are doing it better. Blogs like VentureBeat now employ writers that are even better than what the mainstream offers. While many may disagree with me on that last statement, I can speak from personal experience - Matt Marshall knows the news and reporting.

Technically Speaking, my very short run at VB last year was only the tip of the iceberg for both of us, and I like seeing how that moment in time led us both in directions that worked out for the best.

Where major publications such as the NY Times get their tag line ideas?

Well it’s apparent to me that someone must read this blog, or must be a mind reader. Pretty blatant if you ask me where his tag line came from. I don’t think too many people say “Dumb It Down” very often. Sure he replaced my “it” with “us“, but the intent is the same.

That’s fine, and I can’t wait until someone else writes about my theory of snowglobes and Akmehd. It’s quite ok, as I have always been use to being on the bleeding edge and leading vs following. My blog here has a bunch of ideas that a decent writer could expand upon and re-write. The interesting thing that I find is how my biggest article here is still the most searched item and read blog post here.

It was a total fluke that I even wrote that article. As shown clearly here on my network page which shows my empirical Lookery audience analytic data - people keep coming here to read about that one person. Again, that day was quite interesting as I never intended it to be more than a passing mention that morning.

Technically Speaking, while this blog will never be the most read blog online, I don’t mind contributing to the real writers out there in a send up type of way. We all know where to come when you want the real deal before it’s mainstream.

twittermoms as profiled by TechCrunch earlier this afternoon has been with Lookery for about a week now. Already they have some pretty nice demographic data.

As I noted in my comment, this is only some of what you can see for FREE. That is empirical audience analytic data!

So the question for you people out there reading this - How come you haven’t signed up your site for Lookery? OH you run a Wordpress blog? Well we took care of that for you also with a WP Plugin for Lookery!

Technically Speaking, we don’t bite, and we go down as easy as Google Analytics. When you sign up you have the full access to your data as outlined here, so what are you waiting for?