It’s been an agonizing decision, whether to blog or not… more difficult than figuring out whether to stay in The City or return to school this fall. After much hemming and hawing, web-hosting consultations etc, I’ve finally created a blog. Le Blog, in honor of my host city and the ever popular Franlish.
The web-hosting consultations brings me to my first topic - Played Out Tech
(1) I was unsure about where to blog, so I had many conversations which turned up the following: Blogger, while easy to use, isn’t attractive bcs it’s just so ‘everywhere’, it’s practically as bad as…. MySpace, which is totally played out and smacks of amateur. While I’d love to support the folks at 6Apart, LiveJournal is for emo kids from 2 yrs ago, Typepad costs $, and Vox looks like it’s for 15 yr old girls. Google blogs and MSN LiveSpaces are so big they don’t even fit on the radar… and so it’s Wordpress for me. They admit they’re an underdog in the blogging space, and I like that.
(2) Lighters at concerts are so 2000. I haven’t been to a ton of concerts in the last few years, so I only first noticed cell phones as the new lighters at concert in the Greek Theater this summer, where there were maybe a hundred or so cell screens in the crowd. So last night at the free CSU Wyclef Jean concert, it was a little surreal to see 1000s of blue screens/keypads waving in time to “No Woman, No Cry.” The next music video hit is going to be filmed on a cell phone, and NOT released on YouTube.