blogging, who needs a topic

Guy Kawasaki has been blogging and friends and old friends alike have been slamming him. The reason this is an issue for me is that I have (self-centered) contempt for notoriety. Obvioulsy, it is because (not too thinly veiled) I feel as though I deserve notoriety as much as the next guy (no pun intended). The truth is, I don't really believe that I deserve the fame, I think as a westerner I equate 'credit' with 'accomplishment' and I want to accomplish.... Something.

Anyway, my point is... That I swallowed my pride and subscribed to Guy's blog, hoping that in that small act of humility I would 'see the light' about why people talk about him (and his ilk). So a week into my newfound humility I am seemingly bombarded with a bunch of posts from people who are saying about Guy all the things I said about him NOT EVEN KNOWING HIM.

What am I to do, oh woe is me... The agony of being right!?

So, Guy Kawasaki is an over-inflated, self congratulating, used-to-be. Who isn't ;o)

He may or may not have anything valuable to say. I am always saying the web changes every 2 years so anyone with more than 5 years experience doesn't know what they are talking about anyway.

But I am wrong...

I must be since I've been pluggin away at the WWW since 1994, but wait... aren't I blogging RIGHT NOW in an attempt to regain some of the excitement and newness of the early web.

Don't I want to write an AJAX / Web 2.0 / Community driven / Aggregator / location aware app (with requisite developer API), just like I had to write that 'shared contacts/groupware app' in all Javascript back in 1997?!

Or the way I *HAD* to use frames when Netscape started supporting it.



Truth be told, I am writing this BLOG because I am a writer. I am many things, but in the end (i hope) that I am a writer. Scripts, code, narrative, blog posts whatever.

And (like a NYC kitchen faucet) one must let the dirty water run to get to the clean stuff...