Steve Jobs

Frederick Giasson

 
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

— Steve Jobs

 

Steve Jobs

Frederick Giasson

 
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

— Steve Jobs

 

Steve Jobs

Frederick Giasson

 
“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

— Steve Jobs

 

Consumer bloggers: the new generation

Frederick Giasson

Some weeks ago, Duncan Riley of Blog Heralds talked about the decline of the geek bloggers:

I’m never one to mince words, so I’m getting straight to it: the geek bloggers are in decline and there is very little they can do about it.

He explained this assertion with the fact that blogging is evolving and that new generations of bloggers are emerging. The only thing I whish is that he is right, and if we check at the current state of the Blogsphere, he is right.

Blogging is evolving, and his real utility is emerging. Reading geek bloggers are really interesting if you have an interest into the theories of blogging. These geek bloggers opened a path to future generation of bloggers; tested and developed the technologies that support the concept.

Is it good news? You bet. Blogging give to people the ability to say what they want to talk about, anonymously or not. Blogging is cheap, easy to use, and spreading is everywhere. Currently, people are taming the concept and evaluating its value. A person(blogger) will talk about his journey, another one will talk about his professional experiences, another one will talk about his cancer, another one will talk about his experience into the Katrina hurricane, another one will talk about his life in Delhi in September 2004, etc. You see the picture?

Currently we see blogging as a way to talk to others, a way to express yourself, and a new way to communicate. However, on the long run, blogging will be a way to have a sort of chronological social encyclopedia. Historians in 20, 30, 40, or 100 years will search in blog archives to know what people lived in a special situation, and how they lived it.

Blogging is becoming a planetary personal journal that will be usable by future generations to know what happened during a special event or how their ancestors lived.

This vision is only possible if people, any people, geek or not, from anywhere on the world, from any social environment, blog.

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