So, I keep hearing from various corners about how blogging is dying, and about how microupdates and aggregation and lifecasting/lifestreaming are the new big things.
I’m not content with the new big things. I want to think about what’s next, to pre-empt it and grasp it in my grasping hands. That is to say that I want to take the new big thing and make it newer, bigger, more interactive.
Like those Choose Your Own Adventure books from when we were kids.
You know the ones, where you’re in a cave and there are crab-men and no matter what, the crab-men killed you but sometimes there was a girl and other times you died before the crab-men could kill you? I’m thinking of turning my life into one of those. Every time I come to some vital decision point, I’ll be turning control over to you, loyal readers. Every meal I eat, every beverage I consume. Whether or not I get gas in my car at this exit or press my luck. Whether I shower, check the mail or do any number of other mundane tasks. You can even decide which of my family members I’ll alienate, who I date and which of my friends I will inevitably disappoint horribly. Will I change cell phone carriers? Will I quit my job and become a costumed criminal? I don’t know; you tell me.
I’m excited about this. This cannot end poorly at all.
