I usually don’t participate in memes, but made an exception just this once on a Facebook meme that’s going around. I’m also posting it here. Full text after the jump.
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With the economy in the crapper, there are going to be a lot of online services folding or cutting corners to survive. This is a good time to make sure you are keeping local copies of any work that is important to you.
There’s now a write-in campaign to make me Cobb County tax commissioner. I’m up to three votes! That’s three hundred percent more than I had this time yesterday!
That I live in DeKalb County is an unimportant detail. I figured I should have a platform, so here’s my first campaign promise, following Jen’s endorsement of me on Facebook:
Last year on Aug. 1, I posted my podcast interview with Screaming Sports CEO and co-founder Alec Peters. The show notes I wrote were clumsy (particularly the lede asking about VC funding) and didn’t entirely convey the point I wanted to get across. Lance Weatherby wrote a post yesterday which I think better reflects what I was trying to say about Atlanta start-ups at the time:
So there is a group [of] companies that are out there playing in the consumer space.
But to many [this] does not seem to be the case. Perhaps because not many of them make it big.
It’s not that they don’t exist or haven’t attained a degree of success, it’s that there’s not a Twitter or a Facebook or something else that’s gotten really huge you can point to and say “there’s this city’s post-bubble success story.” Kaneva is the closest company to that, and I don’t think it has the mainstream recognition that would meet that admittedly nebulous criteria.
Lance said he plans to write a follow-up on why he thinks nothing has taken off at that level, which I’m looking forward to reading.
Also, if this sort of thing interests you, you should listen to the second part of my podcast interview with Bobby Blackwolf of All Games Radio where we discuss Atlanta’s video game development scene.
