Follow tonight’s ServiceNation Forum online and on twitter.

On television we expect the Forum to be broadcast live, starting at 8 pm EDT, on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, C-Span, and selected PBS stations around the country (check your local PBS listings).

In addition, MTV will also stream the Forum live. To watch the MTV stream go to http://www.bethechangeinc.org/servicenation/live. Below the MTV stream, you can subscribe to the ServiceNation Kyte player for organic content captured by our mobile producers on the floor! They will be recording behind-the-scenes, exclusive footage throughout the two-day summit. You can also watch the stream on MTV’s website at http://think.mtv.com/groups/servicenation.

Enjoy the broadcast, and stay tuned for further details on how you can watch Day 2 of the Summit. We will be sending another e-mail, and details will be posted on www.servicenation.org. You can review the full program here: http://www.bethechangeinc.org/servicenation/summit/schedule.

ServiceNation is also the talk of the town on twitter.

More at http://twemes.com/sn08

On a historical day in the history of this nation, much of the talk in the tech blog world was about how Robert Scoble, a prominent tech blogger, lost access to Facebook while testing a beta version of Plaxo pulse, which is a script that will allow you harvest contact information of all your friends to store them elsewhere.  Too see how many other  bloggers beside Scoble that covered the story, just Google “Robert Scoble and Facebook.”  I was really disappointed to find the day of the Iowa primary this was much of the talk in the tech blog world.  The result of this presidential election will affect the future of the Internet will greatly affect the future on the Internet and how technology as a whole will be viewed/used in this country and by the government.  Aside from TechCrunch, none of these other tech bloggers have interviewed any of the dozen of presidential hopefuls on either side of the isle.  If these candidates can pander that to every other constituency in the country to get their vote, why isn’t the geek community, with the exception of the Google, Microsoft and Yahoo of the worlds, also demand the attention of the future president.  Net Neutrality, Identity Theft, Use of voting machines, How to address the technology divide in our public school system, media consolidation, upgrading federal government IT infrastructure are just some of the few issues that the next president will have to address.  Without the bloggers and the rest of the tech world exercising any pressure or forcing the candidates to be better educated about these issues, big tech companies will be only ones to have a say on how these issues unfold.
Moreover, since this election has be dubbed the “technology election”, I would imagine on the day of the first caucus the tech blogging world would be a conversation about creating objective measures that could be used to examine exactly what affect technology will have and has had on the election.  More frustrating than not being able to vote in this election, to no fault of my own, is people squandering the opportunity to bring important issues to the light before it’s too late.  Today’s coverage of “Scoble-Facebook gate” was would be equivalent to something like CNN covering Britney’s latest night of debauchery instead of covering Bhutto’s assassination.

Sorry Scoble but I really don’t care that Facebook banned you for breaking the rules that you agreed to uphold in the first place.

Over the years the number of blogs I read on a regular basis has increased. However, the quality of the posts and the quality of the writing has remained stagnant.  Why is that?  I don’t  have the answer.  If I did, I’d write a book and try to get deal for it.  Maybe it’s just me but I think that if you’re going to call yourself a professional blogger your writing and your research should be at the level of a professional.  Over the last two days, I’ve watched an interview on a profession tech blog where the interviewer was irritating. I’m not going to link to it because it’s a new venture and I’ve the pleasure to meet the gentleman who is behind it.  Nice guy.  His niceness aside, his interviews are terrible.  On the ones that I’ve watched the questions were similar to that of five-year old interviewing his/her parents for a school project.  What made the recent interview even more unbearable to watch was the fact that interviewer kept interrupting the interviewee and made “huh-uh” noise after every sentence.  Now to be fair to him, he is not the only guilty of crappy interviewing of the web.  There are many more out there.   I wouldn’t have such a problem with this if these people would refer to themselves as amateur bloggers as opposed to professional bloggers. To all who claim to be professional bloggers; please take a writing class, an interview class and a research class.  Calling yourself a professional requires more than the ability to copy and paste from a site larger than yours (with or without two lines of your own) or post low qualities videos and call them interviews.  To put out such crappy work, undermines your blog and insults your readership.  Then again it’s  very possible that I have a twisted definition of  the word “professional.”

A couple of you have asked me why my site was down. Simply put, I wanted to move away from dasBlog and try WordPress. Why did I move? Well, after 3+ years with dasBlog I felt it was time to explore something new. WordPress is very robust and provided me with the flexibility I wanted from blogging platform. I have not yet decided if I will import the old content to the new blog. I’m currently leaning against the idea because it would not represent any departure from the way I’ve written in the past.

Besides updating my blog I’ve been keeping very busy. With the beginning of football season, I’ve spent a lot of my time managing various fantasy football teams. .. Just kidding. Actually school has kept me pretty busy. I’ve found the classes so far to be very thought provoking and applicable to real world experiences. To make a long story short, Grad school is much better than undergrad. In addition to school, I’ve been doing pro-bono web consulting for two start-up non-profits. I hope to use my knowledge of the web and web trends to help these organizations create an online presence that will enable them to reach a wide audience. Working pro-bono has also given me the opportunity to put to use the knowledge that I’ve acquired from class and through reading numerous online articles. In addition, It also gives me the chance to extend my portfolio (coming soon to this website) to include projects beyond those of now defunct Doceus Inc.

As those of who are addicted to Facebook already know, I recently celebrated my 24th birthday. I’m getting to be old man. Who would have thought? I didn’t do much for my birthday this year because I was in NJ/NY attending a wedding and visiting the girl’s brother. I must admit I was nice to get away for the weekend, but now it’s back to the daily grind.

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