Putting this back together

I finally made the time (over the course of about two weeks) to move my blog to a different host.  The old host was slow, too expensive and limiting but everything was there and it was easier not to mess with it. 

Now that I’ve moved everything, I think it’s time I start thinking about blogging again.  Here’s the thing – I’ve changed quite a bit.  My close friends tell me I’m a very different person – it’s like I’ve got the Thousand Yard Entrepreneur Stare.  Yes – I’m still an entrepreneur, yes I’m still building some REALLY cool stuff.  No, you don’t have ANY idea what it is I’ve been building for the last year cause I’ve never talked about it or told anyone (ok, some of you know, but only if I told you about it in the last couple weeks).  No, I’m not dead even though very few people have seen me for the last year. 

I’ve learned a LOT about entrepreneurism in the last year – and I’m not talking about all the crap you read in books.  If you’re an entrepreneur who gave up everything for a year to build your baby, you know what I’m talking about.  If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last year, it’s how to be real.  I’ve been through several gyrations (some of them public) in the last 18 months and there are plenty of things I’m now embarassed that I had to learn – but now that I’ve learned them you won’t see me repeating them. 

Being Real is interesting in a Web 2.0 world – cause most of Web 2.0 isn’t real – most of it is goofy ga-ga playtime “oh look at the new shiny thing”.  Which is great “fun” for about 5 minutes, then you get tired of playing with the kids and it’s time to make money – which most of Web 2.0 won’t do.  I’m talking about making real money here, not bringing in a little change from ads or helping support some poor dude who’s schleping the mashup he built over the weekend. 

So, my blog is going to change.  I’m going to call it like I see it now.  I still like a lot of the Web 2.0 concepts but I’m a capitalist and Web 2.0 is a very socialist environment.  I’ll be calling bogus on a lot of stuff that is “fun” and playful – I’m going to rip “Social Networking” apart, but I’m going to also show how it could be rebuilt to be useful. 

My point is, I’m no longer hyperventilating about “the movement” it’s time for “the movement” to move on and grow up.  I fully expect to get flamed for all this, I’m fine with that because I’ve already proven out what I’m going to be saying.  So if you disagree, bring it on, I’m interested in engaging on how to grow Web 2.0 up. 

Oh yeah, and I still hate Macs.  There are 2 Powerbooks, 1 MacBook Pro, 2 iPhones and 6 iPods in the house along with 4 PCs – I end up doing triage on Mac stuff all the time and never have to mess with my PC stuff.  iPhones are falling apart and crashing, MacBooks are crashing, iPods are forgetting what they are all the time.  And yes, I added that part just to ruffle the feathers of all the Mac bigots out there – just cause I haven’t done it for a while.