The world just changed

Hot Air is here. It’s almost unbelievable what a couple of hard working people with off-the-shelf hardware and software can do these days. In six weeks, we built a news channel, complete with daily video updates. I did it myself and I can hardly believe it.

Whether you agree with Hot Air’s politics or not is totally beside the point. The fact that Hot Air exists is the point. Two years ago, a project like this would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to launch, and would have reached a tiny audience. Today it’s within almost everyone’s reach.

Blogging and its associated technologies have changed the world. It happened so fast that even those of us driving the bleeding edge barely realize it.

My personal blog is called Almost Cool. I gave it that name because it sums up my position on the pop culture spectrum: I’m a consumer of cool. I’m not at the bleeding edge of it (a place inhabited by artists and rocket scientists), but I’m at the forefront of the majority. In other words, like many of you, when I “discover” something new and cool, the majority of the population is just around the corner.

I’ve written a far more lucid explanation of all this here.

I mention this because I think it gives the following statement a bit of weight: the future just arrived. It’s name is Hot Air.

Mark my words: history will remember this year as a turning point in person to person communications. The old models are dead. Geography is dead. Communities rule.

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