The Crushing Blow

I have had a LiveJournal Account for a while, but have not used it as much as I planned. There are things that I appreciate about how it works, but it is become clear to me that I need to create a second blog that is more focused on the things that I am working on, things I present and write about.

hal2k will continue to live, but it will become more about day to day stuff. It will be focused on community.

This blog will be an ongoing journal, a place for people to get stuff from my presentations, etc. It is for my convenience -- I am through with generating web pages for content that is ephemeral. For me, the annoyance at simple things becoming difficult leads me to move on. It is sometimes called a "tipping point", but I prefer an alternate way of describing the moment where it becomes clear that things have changed. It is the Crushing Blow.

The Crushing Blow is the last hit -- the one that topples. I believe the crushing blow is getting ready to happen to Television, as an example. I see it happening in other things as well. Commercial radio will have to radically reinvent itself, or it will just become irrelevant. Low Power radio promised to save the industry, but the industry has tried to kill it. I hear the sound of another crushing blow, the last sound something hears before it all goes black.

--hal