dmotion

I have to say that 2008 has been the year of Limited Availability for me.

I can't think of another time in the last 11 years where I have been less available in all sorts of ways than now.

I haven't had a (Home/Cell) phone since May. I really haven't had (my own) an internet connection. I am physically 100 miles from most of the people whom I used to associate and hang out with.

Besides a handful of people (I'd have to say less than 20) no one really knows where I am and much less what I've been up to.

Most people haven't seen/heard from me for at least 3 to 10 months if not more.

My Limited Availability online is evidenced by not only lack of blog entires, but partically any site in which I have an account at.

For a brief time I had started experimenting with Soup via a site I entitled: Spill...

I also continued to try to update my tumblr with shared items from my Google Reader although now slow and unstable internet forced me back to usage of a desktop reader...

I had also been updating my Wordpress rather well with particular reviews of TV Shows and Films yet that too also fell through...

I attempted to re-kindle my affections with Twitter a little over a month ago but that ended rather quickly due to lack of internet connectivity and phone.

I even posted a rather long Utterz...

My Limited Availability physically is evidenced by myself seeming indisposed and averse to any sort of social outing, communication or otherwise--basically "…being uncommuncationable." Which is mostly based on the fact that I am not where I usually am.

I have thought my disappearance, my extended leave of absence; call it what you may, would wreak havoc upon all and any of my relationships be they close or slight...

Yet having been gone for so long I have come to realize that truly those whom know me, have come to know me, etc. have the knowledge that I do tend to 'disappear' and 'reappear' every now and again sometimes longer than other previous times...

My Limited Availability --this year, 2008 has been one of those years where I have done numerous disappearing and reappearing acts. Each longer than last.

Although each time I do reappear, as I am doing so now, I am apt to comment on my disappearance and sometimes...or eventually at some point come to detail my disappearance.

dmotion just has Limited Availability right now...

TIME's Person of The Year is:

me...and you and everybody else that are "citizens of the new digital democracy."



So this is cool--so if you want to make it really personal, photoshop your picture inside the Apple's iMac/YouTube Video Player's Screen...

Uh, I'm not going to start the Apple/Windows debate here so yeah--me--you're--everybody is the person of the year...that's on the internet that is.

"Make no mistake about it, I understand how tough it is, sir. I talk to families who die." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 7, 2006

I know what he means, but it was said in matter that was incorrect.

Given the way he stated it gives way to ridicule.

...You thought this only happened to terror suspects and to those that seem a world away. Guess again.

...and this is in the US:

Scanning The Drudge Report I came across: "Michael Kinsley: Ego Monsters of the Web..."



it's not in an eye catching place or with a shocking headline but it just caught my attention...

reading the article, brought to mind past times of the web wherein people's, er, homepages--and the rare websites made them seem like, "an egotistical monster."

That 'time' has long since passed away.

As Kinsley puts it, "All of the elements that struck us as obnoxious maybe eight years ago no longer seem that way. In fact, they are now virtually required for any writer's Web site."

He brings up solipsism--that is, the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

Anyways what made this all the more interesting is his example for the "ultimate in solipsism" towards the end



he mentions Twitter, wherein, "you can answer the question 'What are you doing?'"

Really it's as if it's the haiku of blogging...



which also vaugely reminds me of Facebook's status thing in the profiles.



It also made me go check out Biz Stone's blog which I hadn't checked in such a long, long, long time--since like he started to work at Odeo...



Biz Stone?

Yeah, Biz Stone..."Biz Stone is the author of Who Let the Blogs Out? and Blogging. He helped start Xanga, then spent two years on the Blogger team at Google, and is currently part of Obvious, the company that makes Odeo and Twitter."

It's Twitter--but will it be what people are going to be doing?

Ha, this is great RadiusIM--IM in AJAX.

True that Meebo is up there in the 'greatness' however RadiusIM as the name would imply plots out the locations via Google Maps of other users 'near' you.

It's pretty good and you can be logged in on AIM, MSN, Yahoo and GTalk.