I’ve always been moved by music albums that have a welcoming song: The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper, DMB’s Before These Crowded Streets, The Killers’ Sam’s Town, etc. It’s as personal as it gets, those songs convey a message from the band straight to you.
Likewise I would like to welcome you to my very first effort in getting social.
As an online community we constitute a many-million headed creature. We are eighteen years old – the World Wide Web was published in 1991 – which means we are a teenager: eager to get out there and communicate, socialize, rebel, expose (and sometimes overexpose).
I’m a frequent user of social networking and 2.0 tools in general and I’m really excited about the possibilities presented by their use. Necessity is the mother of all inventions: From the wheel to mobile phones, there was a need before there was a way. Social networks help me solve, among others, the following needs:
- Staying up to speed on tech or IT topics by reading / commenting / sharing the latest post by Dan Tynan.
- Playing a poker game with friends or complete strangers without going to a Casino.
- Avoiding a 2 hour long sit-in to view the photo album of my friend’s trip to the beach with an annoying 3 minute per-photo commentary.
- Organizing a football match without having to call all my lazy friends one by one.
- Staying up to date on my friend’s career moves, social activities, birthdays (I’m particularly bad at that one), etc.
The downside? As I mentioned before we are eighteen, which makes us an adolescent. As such, we are sometimes inclined to over sharing. Social overexposure has become a new kind of spam. I bet every one of you has an annoying friend that has the compulsive necessity to report his activity on a minute by minute basis.
Back to the welcome song.
Holoom is about providing the worldview on a few topics of choice (the ones that strike my fancy really) by a guy that’s worn many hats and wants to share a bit of the experience piled in his hat rack. Posts will be almost exclusively from the IT domain, but not related to a specific sub-domain. They will not be solemn or grandiloquent, but colloquial and, whenever possible, funny.
My hopes are that you occasionally drop by and read something you find useful and / or interesting and not consider me part of the ever growing social spamming community.
Hope you enjoy your stay.
Shuje
In my next post I will show you how to build a home made Mr. Potato Head using only a potato, 4 toothpicks, a bottle of rum and a picture of your mother in law.
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