
This past Thursday I decided to broadcast an entire day of my life on the internet for my video network, Awesome Inc. I used my 12″ Powerbook, iSight, EVDO card, and uStream.tv. I started at 6:00 AM and broadcasted live all day from my car to college classes. Some of the noteable things I did was get a shot, eat sushi, and drive through an area where no cell phone gets signal and my EVDO card did not lose signal.
No one asked me about my camera and I did not tell anyone but a few friends the day before. I had an average of three people watching at any given moment and I recorded 11-hours of my day for people to go back and watch.
One of the things I learned from this is that it is exhausting. By 4 o’clock I was ready to turn off the camera and go to bed. It also helped me to be more aware of my actions knowing that anyone could be watching me.
Was it fun? Totally. Will I do it again? No idea.
You can catch my video blog that I do three times a week at AwesomeInc.tv/Jake
We all wanted the internet to catch on. For the internet to make our lives simpler. Do anything at the power of the keyboard! For so long it worked out fine, for so long we wanted more people to adopt the internet. We have gone to far.
Now when we drive to companies and services they will ask for our e-mail address to spam us. They will tell us they cannot help us, that we have to go to their website. We go directly to the source to get turned down. Turned down, but yet someone is being paid to sit behind a desk and tell people that they can do nothing without you going to their website.
Designers! My tongue for a designer for these poor souls! Because when you go to these websites you are lucky if you can find the page you are looking for! The web developers! Unencrypted submission forms for submitting credit card and social security numbers, I think not.
Well certainly the thinking minds of the world would show they can do one better, but even colleges fail to provide a website worth anything. This is why we go to you in person, but the stooges turn us down.
You fools! You have it so easy, you could also help us in person. Not only are you cheep and foolish, you are sacrificing the people who want to be educated at your own expense.
I will stop you. Who am I? I am Jake Bilbrey. Followed by those who are those who want common sense back. You stole it from us and we will steal your thunder from you. We will not stop until your ideas are lying face down in your own server rooms.
I will stop the web server of the world.
— Jake Bilbrey