A few weeks back I was emailed the following video. The lines are especially true because of the darkened financial crisis that many are in.  Interestingly, back on Feb 14th I attended a comedy gig with 40,000 fans all paying an average of £40 per ticket. Let us also not forget that my car parking bill for 2 hours parking on the night was £22.

I believe because the media does not discuss or present it, doesn’t mean its not there.

Often we are quick to spend money on personal pleasures but think 100 times before contributing towards a worthy cause. The concept of the following video  focusing on how collaboration could be adapted for showing a world-view on reality. For example, half of the screen could show one city’s extravagant night life with the other showing a city in the same country as deserted. Another example could show the different living conditions from one hemisphere to another.

The message in the music should motivate us to do more than just hum along to it!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Although the video focuses heavily on ‘the trouble’ with twitter being an exhibitionist’s tool. It fails to outline practical benefits.
For example, potential pooling or what I call meshing of information into a stream of reliable data. The latter is often described as Mindcasting.

As computers have become increasingly part of our daily lives there is a natural emergence of dependency and sharing of information.

I remember reading about one of the pioneers of IT strategy, Joanna Woodward. She was way ahead of her time, writing back in the 1950s about how one day computers would be prevalent throughout an organisation.

Interestingly, whilst at University one of my lecturers suggested slyly, ‘Have you ever heard of people uploading stuff’!?
However, I doubt if at the time anyone realised that blogging would one day become so influential on the way modern day publications and corporate Public Relations now consider their place in society.

The video is extremely amusing, especially when it shows the range of Twitters, life-blogging!
It misses out on mentioning the race to get as many followers as possible? In my view the latter just results in lots of noise.
Being in the attention economy should not mean that there is no value in what you read or see.

I love the line from the video:

Question: Who are they talking to?
Answer: Noone and everyone!

Click here to view the embedded video.

You could argue that maybe I would not have come across the original item if it  had not been for Twitter !

Twitter will find its place, especially when all the noise has subsided.

Or, are we being given yet another device to hype ouselves and who we think we are.

Considering this, maybe the first decade of the 21st Century is all about propelling one’s image. What is missing is the need to create awareness of the importance of community and helping others. Maybe mobile blogging can help identify causes. All we need is respondents who blog back with solutions.