http://keithwj.vox.com/library/posts/tags/life/page/1/ secret places to talk en Vox Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:33:54 -0500 Copyright 2006 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss life http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/hacking-my-reality.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(keithwj) http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/hacking-my-reality.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/hacking-my-reality.html?_c=feed-rss-full Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:33:54 -0500 <p> <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00c2251d19978e1d00d09e477f75be2b" at:format="medium" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-medium photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://keithwj.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251d19978e1d00d09e477f75be2b.html"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c2251d19978e1d00d09e477f75be2b-200pi" alt="mike_lee.jpg" title="mike_lee.jpg" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://keithwj.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251d19978e1d00d09e477f75be2b.html" title="mike_lee.jpg">mike_lee.jpg</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> The first time the power of the net hit me was way back in 1997 when I posted my first gallery of photography, some <a href="http://keithwj.typepad.com/photos/cuba_8995/index.html" target="newwindow">pics of trips to Cuba</a>, on my website. A day or so after they went up, I got an email from Japan, someone who had seen the photographs and wanted to say hi. My photographs had just gone global in an instant.</p> <p>The light bulb went on, the ground shifted, hell froze over - I got it.</p> <p>A few days ago I finally made good on an invite I received a couple of weeks ago from a netizen named <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/curiouslee/" target="newwindow">Mike Lee</a>. We came to each other&#39;s attention through a website called <a href="http://hiptop.bedope.com" target="newwindow">hiptop Nation</a> where we both started posting photos from our Sidekicks way back in 2003. I soon left for the greener pastures of better voice communication and bigger phonecam pics, but we kept reading each other&#39;s blogs and soon met up again on the uber-photo site <a href="http://www.flickr.com" target="newwindow">Flickr</a>.</p> <p>We had lunch near The Post and chatted about life on and off line for almost 2 hours. A main topic of conversation was our admiration for the work of <a href="http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/" target="newwindow">John Maeda</a> at MIT. Turns out that Mike, through his gig at <a href="http://www.aarp.org" target="newwindow">AARP</a> has spent a good deal of time in the Maeda-sphere and clearly saw my eyes light up every time he recounted some of the things he saw and did while there.</p> <p>Mike, who looks innocent enough, has <a href="http://hiptop.bedope.com/index.php?FILTER=zyrr@gznvy.pbz&amp;gimme_entry=20075" target="newwindow">hacked my reality</a> - I got an email from the good Dr.&#39;s office yesterday and I will enter the sphere in a couple of days. Life hack, via hiptop, Flickr and the web, courtesy Mike Lee.<br /> </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://keithwj.vox.com/library/post/hacking-my-reality.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251d19978e1d00cdf3a8cd55cb8f?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> flickr photography mobile weblogs life