My blog will evolve naturally and then what?

If you are going to create a blog, most people advise that you should have a specialism. That's fine but if you are not interested in anything in particular but want to write about anything and everything then perhaps a blog is not for me. Wrong, a blog is for me but it just means that I wont get loyal readers. I'm happy with that for now. I'm kind of mind searching at the moment - and Ive decided to do that through my blog.

I'm going to talk about anything that interests me and then over time I hope that a topic or related topics will emerge naturally. Will it be too late then? No for information is around us twenty four hours a day and so I expect I will have developed some niche that I can talk about on a new blog.

Well if a particular niche does not emerge, I might just stop blogging if I get bored and find something better to do. So watch this blog and lets see what happens. Its a blogging experiment on a global scale.

The two faces of facebook

Social websites such as facebook are going through an evolution if not a revolution in the age of twenty-four hour business and the information age.

When I first joined facebook you looked up old friends chatted about old times and kept in touch. It seems however facebook is changing and it has to change for we are now in the information age where business is conducted twenty-four hours a day, and why not? So facebook and other social networking sites are prime targets for people to promote their businesses and other interests. This is an inevitable evolution of the pleasant land that social networking sites held.

We are all ready to accept applications to see how much of Michael Jackson you know or what type of car you are but behind these funny games there lies a deeper desire to do what is inevitable and thats to receive a reward for sharing information with friends or otherwise.

You only have to look in the property section of publications such as The Mail on Sunday to see how people are moving to all corners of the globe to live the life they had always wanted to. David and Mary in Kenya, David and Celia moving to Cornwalls Kensington and Jean-Christophe with Michelle forgetting the Rolls Royce and the Rolex and moving to their new home in Spain.

So when you are accepting the next fad for finding out your real star sign or finding out your IQ dont forget that its also a business working twenty-four hours a day.

The New Cults of the Information Age

Ive always been interested in the rich and famous - I suppose most people are.  I've never had a desire to be rich and famous myself but I have to admit to be successful in life its probably a good bet that if you adopt some of the traits rich and famous people have you're some way on your way to leading a relatively successful life.  You may then think well success means different things to different people and you would be right, however for many they all have similar traits which you could identify.

You may probably be surprised that many famous people usually have very low self esteems and have learnt to overcome or hide these aspects of themselves by adopting positive behavourial traits.  They are usually excellent communicators, understand people very well and hold values which hold constant throughout millennia.  These values are simple really - If your religious then you will definately understand some of these values to success.  Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddism are world religions that explain these values through their religious text and enable people to lead happy successful lives - I guess thats why these religions have so many followers.

In the age of mass collaboration however and the information age, Business at the Speed of Thought and internetworking these old values that have held true for so long seem to be coming into question.  There is an emerging group consciousness where tribes form globally and locally, have there own leaders and followers.  These tribes identify themselves with their own culture and values.  It could be argued that these are the new cults of the information age.

Check out this insiders view of cults