Holoom

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:

1. Staying up to speed on tech or IT topics by reading / commenting / sharing the latest post by Dan Tynan.
2. Playing a poker game with friends or complete strangers without going to a Casino.
3. 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.
4. Organizing a football match without having to call all my lazy friends one by one.
5. 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.