C.K. Sample

First post since last year #sincelastyear

I haven’t written a blog post since last year on Sample The Web, although I’ve written several over at Obsessable[archived]. I’ve also, of course, been posting a lot to Twitter, which syndicates in the sidebar of this site and into my lifestream, along with all the replies I get on Twitter. Thus, I avoid the…

c.k.

January 3, 2009

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I haven’t written a blog post since last year on Sample The Web, although I’ve written several over at Obsessable^[archived]. I’ve also, of course, been posting a lot to Twitter, which syndicates in the sidebar of this site and into my lifestream, along with all the replies I get on Twitter. Thus, I avoid the “oh noes I’m devoting all my energy into a platform where I don’t own my own words and the history of what I’ve said” dilemma that Scoble^[archived] muses about from time to time and which Arrington^[archived] rags on him for in their little dance of drawing attention to one another. More on that in some later post, maybe.

In any case, over on Twitter, I attempted to start a #sincelastyear meme with only a few people chiming in so far (link dead; removed). That’s why I have #sincelastyear in the title of this post, because it will be posted to my Twitter stream, show up in my lifestream, and appear in that meme thread. I also registered http://sincelastyear.com^[archived], although I haven’t done anything with it yet. It was the first domain name I’d registered since last year, though. I think it would be interesting to set up a site that tracks all the “since last year” tweets alongside statistics released throughout the year, and then organize that information into a timeline that people can browse through for random facts that vary in interestingness from “that’s the first time I gave my dog a bath since last year” (uninteresting) all the way to “XXXX people have died from exposure to chemical X since last year” (where XXXX is an actual number and chemical X is actually some sort of new substance and the entire bit is interesting because it’s all over the news).

In any case, if any developers read this and want to build such a site for me, shoot me an email: ck at sampletheweb dot com. I can pay you absolutely nothing for it, but if it gets any traction, you can be a co-founder and we can work out a percentage of ownership based on your involvement.

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