I'm not sure if I can sum all of this up in Twitter or not (140 characters) and I suppose that statement is the best possible way for me to introduce my topic of discussion.
I've spent most of the day trying to wire up the perfect micro-blogging environment. The easiest, fastest, most intuitive networking of social devices, sewn together into a perfect polygamist marriage; but this road is wrought with frustration and despair.

It all started with my Twitter widget on this blog. I realized that I don't blog all that often, however, I tweet CONSTANTLY, and more-so, I Microblog constantly, so I began striving for some way to turn my Drupal site (where you currently are into a conduit for my Tumblr account (http://jonlitwack.tumblr.com). Somehow this path turned into a near 10 application jumble of interconnected API's and nano-syndication; after all... What's the point in all of these tools if they don't publish at the larger end of the social funnel? ie. The place where most of my friends are travelling.

I haven't figured it all out yet, and it doesn't seem that anybody else has, so I suppose there's some odd comfort in that, but here's the weirdest part of my day: I got home and was (for the first time since I had my cable disconnected) utterly depressed about the fact that I was no longer connected to the same syndicated content as the other 10 million dependents on the non-YouTube.

I realize now the stupidity of the previous thought, particularly in juxtaposition to the one before it, but think about it. I'm 26. I grew up watching GI Joe and Knight Rider. TV has been a part of my life since I was old enough to remember and now I've been conditioning myself to forget about it almost completely. I didn't grow up with the Internet. It wasn't around in proper browser format until I was 12, and the concept of an API or any form of data portability was another ten years away.

We're all learning how to leverage emerging technologies as they come out. Many of us are pioneers/early adopters, paving the way for the rest, enabling the critical mass to seed before the harvest sets in and we move on to the next "big thing". But it's always a struggle between convergence and divergence as we travel the sine wave of development and feel our efforts in market analysis slip through the cracks. It's what we love to do, so we keep doing it, but ultimately we make no decisions... At least not in the absolute sense. We merely surf out to the peak and make as large a wave as we can... Until Rupert Murdoch comes along and invests in the wrong Monsoon.