Obsessed fans... I think I've become one

Jonas Brothers Fan I, originally uploaded by odibusmacsimus.
I have never really understood the obsession people have with celebrities or things in general. I know that myself and my friends have addicted personalities and I guess that's where a lot of it comes from. You gain a sense of self from something else. Either they are an aspiration of yours or who you think you are.

I guess I see certain people are good at certain things and I admire them for that. That was until a friend put me onto Paulo Coehlo and a number of his books. I am well behind I know, but most people will probably know the Alchemist which I finished a few weeks back and thought it was awesome. My friend has read all of this books often in a number of languages and we often speak of the differences what we take out of them. There are quite a few distinctive points that he highlights in a number of his books that I completely agree with and I think it links to a mix between who I aspire to be and who I think I am. This is the beginning of the obsession. But the funny thing is I would usually leave this to my personal life and wouldnt comment about that on here. But now he is chasing my work life and doing it brilliantly I might add.

Firstly he is one of the first major published authors to begin giving away his work for free online. Check out his site. Thanks to Aart Hilal who commented on one of my posts about the site. I think we both could have a similar obsession.

Secondly, he has done a great collaboration with an old client of mine... HP to do a great online program to make a movie out of one of his books.

I'm about to scream leave me alone... but the truth is I cant wait to read another book and to see what he does next.

Staring out the windows at the clouds when I was at school maybe meant something

Clouds, originally uploaded by fpsdavid.

After all the talk about cloud computing. HP, Intel and Yahoo are doing something about it. I am thinking this is a team game to get ahead of Google and potentially Microsoft. But I do love the fact that a lot of it is linked to schooling (and government institutions but hey.. the guys have to make some money). We already talk about digital natives and how they have grown up with the current social tools but what about learning how to live your life in the clouds will be really interesting.

This could make the content for bitcasting, as Faris has brought up before from the book Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte, really interesting. The understanding of what to feed you when from data and information that you have linked to your cloud will change the advertising world.

Looking to buy an iPhone, I looked into whether I could sync it to my work calender and saw that this is already happening. Check this video out.

So if they make this all free and adfunded, which seems to be the case these days. It would be quite interesting serving geotagged ads at exact times linked to your calender. Could be cool. Im going to be keeping an eye on this.