Comments on: What Is So Bad About Local?

By: andrewhyde

andrewhyde — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:50:00 +0000

I saw you check in at home, and then saw that you were on twitter, facebook, etc.

Weird that we have spoken more online than where we live, 15 yards away?

I would love to do some video on this, think it would be really interesting.

Awesome the BrightKite connected us.

By: andrewhyde

andrewhyde — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:50:00 +0000

By: Ken Oatman

Ken Oatman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:21:41 +0000

Hey Andrew, interesting P.O.V., to which I might add… You've been my neighbor, right next door, for years now. We grunted hello a few times, but I thought you shuffled off to a drudge job every day and never really talked to you. When I signed up for Brightkite, the first thing I saw was someone else had visited our shared street address, 101 Pearl in Boulder. It was you. How cool. I've been loving your tweets and blogs and GPS wanderings ever since. Ever since, I've been dying to talk to you, since you have an obviously fascinating and fulfulling life. Weird to say and think it out loud, but I wouldn't've know all that without Brightkite, and all your various other hanging-your-life-out-there social media contributions. I was even thinking, maybe we should do a video interview with each other before we really sit down and talk in meatspace like normal neighbors, about startups and Moab and bike commuting and gardening. You know, make it a social media 'event'. Sorry I assumed anything about you as stupid as projected a drudge job on you. I've seen a lot of twenty-somethings come and go in those apartments over the past twelve years.