Great, while I am still working on 4 posts, there is already other stuff going on I would like to talk about… I guess it is a full time job to read all the feeds about what’s going on in the world of web 2.0 every day, and it requires a second full time job to write about it.

Interesting topic, journalism, currently I am reading Keen’s “The Cult of the Amateur”, Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School wrote a great post about it in his blog.“And then it hit me: Keen is our generation’s greatest self-parodist. His book is not a criticism of the Internet. Like the article in Nature comparing Wikipedia and Britannica, the real argument of Keen’s book is that traditional media and publishing is just as bad as the worst of the Internet.”

There was also an interesting post by Nate Anderson in ars technica about the recent federal decision where Judge Henry Hurlong, Jr. said that a journalist turns out to be anyone who does journalism, and bloggers who do so have the same rights and privileges under federal law as the ‘real’ journalists.

Well, the point is, it is amazing how fast information is distributed nowadays, usually I know about something new going on in our industry within less then an hour, thanks to all the feeds that are available out there, but it is still up to me and my responsibility to make the decision whether to believe in the latest news or not, and it always was, even in times of the “old media”.

Yesterday for example there was this article in the New York Times about Walmart selling a PC for $200 with GOS as OS, optimized for Google applications, and I thought “wow, this is gonna hurt Microsoft”. So I submitted the story to digg. Five minutes later I read in Twitter the following: Went to Walmart today. No Google/Everex/Linux PCs to be found. Register biscuits totally clueless about the whole thing. Go figure. Got the point? Amazing, instant information distribution…. I love it…

Another interesting thing that happened yesterday was Google hitting the $700 mark and becoming the 5th most valuable company on the planet. I love Google, and when they where at $430 and took a loss down to $360 some of my friends said that this is the beginning of the end, I said I think they will go up to $800 - I told you so… Lets see how Maka-Maka kicks in (will write about it later today), and how the new Google-MySpace deals works out, $800 is probably not even the end… waiting for my favorite company to surpass Microsoft, currently Google’s market-cap is $219 Billion, Microsoft’s $346 Billion, so getting close… Uhm, I am not a Google groupy, or am I?

More I-told-you-so’s: VMWare is also doing great, when I said this will be huge they were at $70, now it is $122, and they are about to outperform Google…

Ok, that was in brief what struck me yesterday, now I can start to work on the articles I actually had in the queue…

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I just installed the new version 0.017 of Snitter, the bug with the black bar on the left side described yesterday is gone, but now there is another one, the icons to send private messages and such behave funny, they cover the profile pics on hover. Besides that if I click a link it opens my TextMate, not my browser. Here is the Jonathan Snook’s blog, he is the Snitter developer.

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Today Scoble said in one of his tweets “hello snitter goodbye twitterrific!”, Ok, I was just about to install Twitterrific, but than lets give Snitter a test run. Well, nice, but it has this strange black bar on the left side, and when I click on a link nothing happens, so Snitter seems to be a little buggy…

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Ok, things are getting back to normal here in San Diego, and I am back blogging my 2 cents… My dad was visiting me this week, for the first time since I am here, that was really bad timing for a visit… well, we still had fun…

So today I spend my whole day doing my homework, reading feeds about what’s going on in the world of web 2.0 - I really hate that term. Things are moving fast, just a few days is really a long time in this industry…

So, first I was checking Loic Le Meurs Blog trying to figure out what’s going on with Seesmic, I still don’t have an account (hey Loic, can you hook me up, please? I promise, I will have some interesting stuff to post), and I am getting anxious because we are going to the web 2.0 in Berlin beginning November and I wanted to post from there, telling the world what’s going on in good old Germany. Actually I already wanted to have a computer set up with Seesmic at the Bakersfield Business and Technology Expo this coming Tuesday, but Berlin, this would be really awesome. Seesmic is like a Video Twitter, so I am really excited to get a chance to test this.

I know, first I said this Twitter thing doesn’t make too much sense for me, but after playing with it for a while I changed my mind, it is really a cool way to communicate with each other, or to listen to what others have to say. Anne Zelenka posted a list why Twitter is a good thing, and Nat Torking also had some good points to add, yeah, you guys are right, I got it and I couldn’t agree more.

Well, while waiting for Seesmic I thought I’ll check out what else is going on, and Bingo, Robert Scoble had what I was looking for, there I learned about Utterz. Scoble is writing about Jeremiah Owyang testing Utterez. Utterez is a mobile blogging engine, the cool thing is you can tie it into your blog, and post voice messages, pics and videos from your cell.

Besides that I found another very interesting thing, Duncan Riley posted about Gooruze, a platform for online marketers, of course I created an account right away. Nice place to get news about SEO. Wow, what a day…

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Ok, the concept of twitter is for those who want to know what you are doing at every moment…..so then I ask myself “am I that self absorbed to think that people really want to know what I’m doing at anytime?” Also I just read that I am not in the Gen X category, but rather the Gen Y so I’m a bit mhph because I thought I was a Gen Xer.  What’s next nerds and geeks will be considered cool?

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