Friday, September 14, 2007
The Dotcom-ing of Self
filed under: lynne d johnson, sxsw interactive festival, wikio
Was just over on writer Lynne d Johnson’s blog, where she writes about music, media and her tech-culture thoughts and I got hyped up. It’s not because she mentioned me on Tuesday as “a damn good writer,” but because she’s all the way digital and I’m about to come out that particular closet myself.
Lynne laments the dearth of black tech bloggers, raises awareness for both the upcoming South by Southwest Interactive Festival and the Jena 6, and… well, just go check out her blog. But Lynne’s an inspiration, a writer who loves hiphop and the web 2.0 in nearly equal measures. I studied computer science in college for 3 years before switching majors (sociology); the math kicked my ass. I wrote simple Basic programs on my Atari 1600XL at the age of 11, was all up on Fortran and Cobol computer languages, reading Omni and Discover heavy before KISS and WBLS (and teenage girls in bubblegum jeans) jacked my attention. Gearing up for the launch of my first real website next month got me in a Bobby Digital state of mind; that and Wikio.com (a whole other story).
Lynne’s got a bishop in the Church of Zombie that kicked my ass on Facebook days ago though. Revenge!
