You know when everything you are involved in is heading in the right direction and you get that feeling that it is going to be amazing when they all converge??? The last few months have felt like that and i just know that it is all going to culminate in one kick ass year...
2004 saw this blog really kick-off (Dec 2004 got over 6,000 unique visitors!)...it saw me travel to the US and attend the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference where i met some amazing people and had so many brilliant conversations that it recharged my belief in the whole "geek" thing (hopefully i wil be attending it again this year)...it saw me visit the Microsoft Redmond campus (where i again met some amazing people and had just as many amazing conversations) for what is hopefully the first time of many to come in the future...it saw the start of the G'day World podcast which has been an absolute blast (thnx Cam)...it saw me develop the germ of an idea that has become the 2005 Australian Blogging Conference...we saw the 10th anniversary of the first online banner ad...and importantly, along with the amazing growth in the conversation about corporate blogs and other "digital" forms of communications, we have seen a rebirth of the Cluetrain concept...
The last point has led to what has been one of the biggest (if not the biggest) decisions of my life. I left my comfortable job of four and half years heading up Singleton OgilvyInteractive and decided to break out on my own...this along with all the other points i have mentioned above will make 2004 a hard year to beat...but i know it is just the begining and 2k5 will be the year that really solidifies not only my future direction but a lot of other peoples as well.
2k5 will be the year that the "digital channel", in all it guises, will be really accepted by the mainstream population and we will see it play a huge part in so many major events that it will have an impact on the world that nobody really expected. And i know that myself, along with a good number of my "new" friends will not only be taking part in, but also leading this revolution
Viva 2k5 and viva the digital revolution...
Posted by Mick (SplaTT) Stanic at January 1, 2005 12:30 AM
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Please, please, please don't use "2k5"!
Sorry, Splatt but it sounds _so_ lame! A pet gripe of mine...
Otherwise a good post, I'm looking forward to the conference and am very interested to see what you make of your new career! Good luck mate!
Cheers,
Matt
Oh, and I'm not the only one!
http://www.ferncrk.com/cs/blogs/stuart/archive/2004/12/07/39.aspx
Posted by: MattyT at January 2, 2005 1:03 PM