Years ago I became a fan of Doctor Who. Broken into short programs, each full episode was shown in four segments and therefore took almost a week to watch.
The TardisA quick aside…during the several years of watching Doctor Who, I was introduced into an extremely corny yet interesting five minute show called Star Gazer with Jack Horkheimer. Star Gazer has been in weekly production since 1976, and has produced over 1,500 episodes as of September 2006. It was actually part of the fun of watching Doctor Who.
To me, Doctor Who was always Tom Baker. I admit that I liked the shows where one or more of the older Doctors joined Tom Baker, but truly he was the “man” or better said, he was “the Time Lord”. I kept that opinion until the end of the first season of the revived Doctor Who in 2006. Christopher Eccleston won me over by the end of the season. Then they decided to bring in another new doctor, a string bean of a guy, David Tennant. I was determined NOT to like this guy since I felt like the show which I liked so much had already abandoned thier new direction with a cool, hip doctor.
I was stubborn, I was going to refuse to like the 10th Doctor, and the second season of the show except for Rose Tyler (Billie Piper). Little did I know that David Tennant would become MY Doctor Who! He was funny, quirky, unique and played the role like no other. He was the best and now he is leaving the show after four more episodes. Too bad! I will refuse to like the 11th Doctor although I’m sure I will eventually like him, but I doubt he will take the place of David Tennant, THE Doctor Who.
See some of the thoughts on the future of the Doctor Who show -http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a134251/cult-spy-the-doctors-regenerations.html
In our Web 2.0 world, there is so much on the Internet that is fascinating.
New applications pop up at a astounding pace. Many of the Web 2.0 applications focus on community and connection. Yet as I sit here pounding the keyboard entering these very words into a Web 2.0 application, I am by myself. I wonder who I am communicating to…I know my girlfriend will read it and maybe a couple of friends and my daughter, but who is my community and who am I connecting to?
First and foremost I am my own community, albeit a small community, and I’m connecting to myself. This application allows me to communicate what I’m thinking and feeling and get it out of my head. I don’t particularly enjoy writing for work or even for fun, however, blogging seems to be different. It allows me to blurt out whatever I want, whenever I feel like it. There isn’t a class assignment requiring two pages double spaced or requiring me to keep it between 1,000 and 1,200 words. I can say something in 160 characters or less, like a text message or Twitter. I can continue on and on without ever ending. Publishing, editing, re-editing, posting comments, deleting, updating, in-fact, I can change history by updating my blog.
This blog is about connecting with my own thoughts and maybe with others. It is also about connecting Web 2.0 applications with other Web 2.0 applications. For example, the pictures to the right come from my flickr account and I invite people to these applications from my contacts in Outlook, Google and Yahoo. Also I can connect to others through LinkedIn. LinkedIn is MySpace or Facebook for professionals. Certainly not as engaging/fun/insightful or time consuming, but still fun.
I love the web and Web 2.0 features and I’m beginning to see articles on Web 3.0 functionality, so it really is a fascinating world wide web we live in.
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