2008 - The Great Escape - Farewell, Mary!
February 4, 2008 – 2:54 pm
I’ve been blue - on and off for months - and it took a severe flu about a month ago for me to realize exactly why… It’s this job. It started out like a dream job three years ago, but I want to get out before it completes the transformation into a horrific nightmare. I need a change. I’m the sort who, after a few years of doing the same thing, gets incredibly restless and must shake it all up and start over. It’s definitely time to move on. I’m already branching out in several exciting directions in search of my next big thing… and I’m now quite confident that my decision to leave this place couldn’t have come at a better time. I feel like I’m quietly stepping into a lifeboat on the Titanic while nearly everyone else is still partying, thinking this ship will never sink… but I felt us hit that iceberg, and I noticed how few lifeboats there are on this ship, and after some back of napkin calculations… yep… it’s time for me to go. The typical messiness of the start of sweeps period is worse than ever, and a lot of my own feelings about the general decline of ET/Insider can be summed up in Billy Bush’s article, Outrageous Tonight.
So I’m probably going to hang out here until a new guy is trained and my contract officially ends. In the meantime, I’m getting excited again about things to do with the social and the semantic web, particularly “Data Portability.” The google group on it is lively and I’ve been monitoring it and communicating with a few people who posted particularly interesting items there, such as this “unconventional” prognostication by Devin Holloway about the future of business plans that could arise once some of the goals of DP are actually achieved.
It’s seriously way past time to pick it up and publish my first facebook app and start working on the second one. Of course I can’t say what they are exactly… not on my blog… but the act of pronouncing their partial existence helps me to keep them alive. Anyone want to help?
