So I write for a small blog that is owned by a guy who is the brother of a person I work for. I wrote a post the other day, and thought little of it (by the way, the title isn’t mine). It is just some of my thoughts about tying information to location. I always post the same stuff here, just a few days later. Again, it’s just a little blog post. Nothing fancy.
The next thing I know the article is on the front page of slashdot. Then it hits Digg’s front page. Then it gets techmeme’d and is on the front page of del.icio.us. It’s been read about 30,000 times.
I’d be feeling good if it wasn’t for all the negative comments about my spelling prowess. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no editor. Which is too bad. But I think it does show that the idea is a keen one, and people are interested in the concept.
My only regret is that I should have written this article after we had built some kind of prototype that allows people to do exactly what I was describing. I think if it done so that it’s easy for the end user, a lot of really cool applications will be ‘thunk up’ up by the internet community at large.
I’m sorry if I misspelled thunk up.
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