Kendall Card 2.0

Well, perhaps it’s reason #4 or #7 but #2873 feels more substantial, more concrete. It’s strange though. I once said that “Google = BORG 2.0” but I still love it/them. Regardless of the count or my inner struggle to love the big G, here is the reason:

Google Alerts.

Do you have them? If not, why? These little gems land in my Gmail inbox each day and since I’m a blogger I have an alert for blogs that link to the place of my employment – Backcountry DOT com (If I wrote it properly with the . then I would show up in my own Google Alert) I opened up my alert this morning and at the end of the list was a blog called the “talus slope of the mind” by J Maxfield. Wait a second, I know J Maxfield. I don’t really “know” him but he’s the guy that I sent a tee shirt to after a blog post I wrote on BackcountryBlog.com that featured a photo by hIrSch who is traveling on a bike.

So I checked out J Maxfield and his talus slope. From there I caught a pretty fun web wave and I’ll recap here in case you want to ride the same wave: (the first link will open in a new window so you can a l t – t a b to read the map)

“talus slope of the mind – grassy roots post”

I managed to negotiate the talus slope from page 1 to page 2 where I saw this headline with a link:

Best. New. Website.

I had to click it cause hey, wouldn’t you want to be one of the first to get in on the Best. New. Website?! Once inside and after the fun I noticed a creative blog of sorts. I read until 10.03.06 which had a letter from khaela to mj and the following text and links in the editorial:

(I got this email yesterday, so she must be on tour now.) (In the meantime I read her journal and listen to her new album over and over again.)

“Huh, she listened over and over…must be good music,” I thought. So I clicked link number 3. “The Blow?” Yes, The Blow it was. “Scroll, scroll…that’s it? No player? Oooookay. Wait a second, they are on my s p a c e, bingo.” *click*:

MYSPACE

Apparently I’m not the first to find The Blow. Check out how many times each song has been listened to. mj did say that she “listened to her new album over and over again”. After listening to the selection just once and poking around the my space I added them as a friend and the ride was over – I was at myself.

postscript wave – I went back to The Blow my space and found a link to TeamYacht which had a live schedule from VIRB.com and that place it cool. I recommend checking it out as a hip social network.