Well, here is the start of it all.... who knows what I will write about. I have no preconceptions other than that I will write on things of interest to me. I won't dedicate it to music or film or politics or technology but anything that interests me at the time. We'll see if a certain focus develops. More likely it will be dropped altogether, but I may be a pessimist. It seems weird "diarising" to an unknown audience (even assuming that there is one) and I've always thought it weird of others.
I am, for example, interested in online technology as a social medium and mechanism. Obviously commerce is changing and will continue to change as technology changes. And writing this blog also comes with such issues attached: Blogger, it seems, is encouraging bloggers that use its system to "monetize". A summary is provided here: http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/12/blogger-integrates-with-amazon.html
The thing is - it seems to be the default option. And I find this rather sleazy - and I have said no to it, even though I will be discussing some things that no doubt you can buy off Amazon etc (and I will no doubt refer to Amazon etc in my posts). But it's as if bloggers SHOULD be the advertisers for such big corporations. Grrr. And I'm very skeptical at how much the powers that be would be willing to pay in any case....
Anyways, here is to the beginning of Kalistos 2000!
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