Monday, 13 June 2005
Welcome to The Basement
Welcome to The Basement. My name is Matt Galloway and this is the first post to my web log. I have a life long passion for technology, it's application and the effect that is has on culture. A few months ago I didn't really understand blogging, but I noticed that a lot of people who are smarter than I am were spending a lot of time talking about it and doing it. Today, I'm a convert and an evangelist. I'm continually amazed by the quality, depth and insight of bloggers.
I still have lots to learn but I feel compelled to start writing, right now, with an eerie yet comforting sense that someone somewhere wants to read this. I know that I feel a personal connection with the authors of blogs that I read on a regular basis. I don't really understand this but I recognize it as being powerful and amazing. I feel that we are in the middle of something really, really big and I want to be involved.
So, that said, I would like to thank Kathy Sierra and friends for making me feel like I kick ass (for doing little more than reading and commenting on her excellent blog Creating Passionate Users.) I would like to thank Robert Scoble for making me feel “a little bit cooler”. Scoble is the first thing Microsoft has done in years that makes me think that they might actually give a damn. I would also like to thank the young and brilliant Ben Casnocha for “being a kid” in such an innovative and disruptive way as to make everyone else really uncomfortable without knowing why. And thanks to Hugh MacLeod for making my laugh and for the Sex and Cash Theory. It has helped me realize that I'm not bipolar or that I am but so is everyone else so what the hell. To be clear, none of these people know me. They're just bloggers that have inpired me.
Offline, I want to say thanks to Bjorn Barner. Bjorn was some guy that I sat next to on a plane who acted like I was really interesting. I told him that I was thinking of blogging and he told me that I should. Sometimes, you just need to hear the words from someone that doesn't have to say nice things.
Speaking of people that have to say nice things, thanks go to my beautiful and extraordinary wife Hetty and our children. I appreciate you tolerating me in all my geek splendor.
So enough with the warm and fuzzies. I hope you'll read and comment.
-Matt
I still have lots to learn but I feel compelled to start writing, right now, with an eerie yet comforting sense that someone somewhere wants to read this. I know that I feel a personal connection with the authors of blogs that I read on a regular basis. I don't really understand this but I recognize it as being powerful and amazing. I feel that we are in the middle of something really, really big and I want to be involved.
So, that said, I would like to thank Kathy Sierra and friends for making me feel like I kick ass (for doing little more than reading and commenting on her excellent blog Creating Passionate Users.) I would like to thank Robert Scoble for making me feel “a little bit cooler”. Scoble is the first thing Microsoft has done in years that makes me think that they might actually give a damn. I would also like to thank the young and brilliant Ben Casnocha for “being a kid” in such an innovative and disruptive way as to make everyone else really uncomfortable without knowing why. And thanks to Hugh MacLeod for making my laugh and for the Sex and Cash Theory. It has helped me realize that I'm not bipolar or that I am but so is everyone else so what the hell. To be clear, none of these people know me. They're just bloggers that have inpired me.
Offline, I want to say thanks to Bjorn Barner. Bjorn was some guy that I sat next to on a plane who acted like I was really interesting. I told him that I was thinking of blogging and he told me that I should. Sometimes, you just need to hear the words from someone that doesn't have to say nice things.
Speaking of people that have to say nice things, thanks go to my beautiful and extraordinary wife Hetty and our children. I appreciate you tolerating me in all my geek splendor.
So enough with the warm and fuzzies. I hope you'll read and comment.
-Matt
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