An Island of Technology
Ever since I discovered podcasting earlier in the year I have been filling my head with the latest and greatest in the tech world, with the latest web 2.0 sites on Tech Crunch, with del.icio.us bookmarks, Riya photo face recognition, News Alloy RSS reader and keeping up with the latest in the Java and SOA world. Listening to the Gillmor Gang has kept me up to date with the attention/intention economy and with the rise of RSS whilst David Berlind and Dan Farber continue to rail against DRM in all its many forms. I listened to Blogger Con IV and became enamoured again with the vision of blogging.
All of this is great but I find myself something of a lone voice in being convinced of all of these things. Sometimes it gets lonely. I long for a chance to just sit down and geek out with someone else who is exposed and engaged with all of these trends. I long for that geek intellectual connection.
When I try and convince people of the benefits of all of this, when I promote this website, when I try and tell people how good RSS is I sometimes wonder what my motive is. Am I really interested in all this stuff for the possibilities it brings and the vistas it opens up or am I just selfishly promoting it to meet my own needs? Am I seeking to transform others to suit my needs? I wonder sometimes. I wonder if I have lost my perspective on life.
God you know me, you know my motives and you search my heart. You know my longing for connection, the same longing common to the desire for relationship you place in all of us. You know the desires and talents you placed within me and you know the purposes you have for my life. You know the perfect balance of all the things you have given me. Help me to keep this technology in harmony with all of the abundant life you have given me.
