The NYTimes has a really nice article about post dot-com entrepeneurs who’ve moved on from the web medium and are now living lives completely detached from the wired web. Most of interest is bluemountainart’s founder Jared Polis who has now joined the Colorado State Board of Education following his company’s buyout by Excite@Home.
Others featured, like Harry Knowles of aintitcoolnews are still around, but it’s the touching nature of the story that’s interesting – that these are people who – like celebrities – the casual browsers of the web will know and recognise. You remember when bluemountain would pound your yahoo email account with junkmail and you’d get messages from friends, through them, wishing happy Easter and Valentines… Now they’re passed and people have come to realise that physical cards are still the best and that the internet, though a social medium, just doesn’t work as a digital Hallmark.
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