Molecularist

It’s ironic.

I consider myself fused with The Cloud, living so much of my life and work through and for the Internet.

Alas, these past few months I have found myself deep in my First Life, living and thinking and doing apart from the Internet.

Indeed, email seems like hard work, I am so behind on my reading and replying. No, it’s not that there is too much email, there really isn’t. It’s just that I’m rarely in Outlook or Gmail.

Or in my feed reader.

Or posting anything.

Oh, I’m really active twittering, working and chatting via SMS, talking to folks all over the world, immersing myself in the lives of users, learning via First Life how folks truly use The Cloud and Mobiles to make their lives easier.

I’m just not spending time in my Second Life.

I’m not ashamed that my First Life has taken over my, euh, life. It’s how it should be.

The Cloud is not a destination, but the fabric upon which we live. The Cloud is just behind the stuff we use to interact with it – plumbing.

There is no Cyberspace, no Web site, no Info Superhighway, there is no Second Life.

There is only our First Life.

Funny article in the Boston Globe on texting (link below). Even after all these years, there’s still a fascination.

And while we are onto the mystique of text messages, Hugo sent me a link way back about an author who wrote a book in text message form.

Very clever. I wish I had thought about it. Indeed, Lifeblog would make it easy to make it autobiographical. And, mix in a bit of Twitter, and you have a very amusing collection of messages (could go on and on about having fun with Twitter).

Link (registration required): Survey gives luv txt tips – Daily Business Update – The Boston Globe.

But don’t lose hope. While eight percent of respondents said bad cellphone etiquette ended their relationship, twenty-eight percent they flirted by text, and a third said they texted their significant other — six percent more than last year. Nearly a fifth said their cellphone had been useful for crashing an unpleasant date.