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Last night we watched ESPN (right after VA Tech won the Chik-Fil-A Bowl) with eager anticipation as Travis Pastrana attempted a new world record with his Subaru Impreza WRX STI. He flew 269 feet making a nearly perfect flight from the Pine Street Pier onto a barge anchored in the harbor.

“It was a wild ride,” said the wild man of action sports.

His Subaru skidded sideways after landing and slammed into a safety wall at the end of the barge, but Pastrana emerged unscathed. He ran up the landing ramp and did a backflip into the water in front of a crowd estimated at 20,000.

[via espn]

I got quite a few laughs from these cartoons.

What do you remember from Social Media in 2009?

-Phishing Scams on Twitter

-The lame ReTweet feature

-Twitter Spam…bleh…

What else can you remember?

[ht to ReadWriteWeb]

If you are in the Corona,Ca/ Riverside, Ca or anywhere near Southern California next week you want to come out to Generate at Crossroads Christian Church in Corona,CA.  We’ll be meeting afterward for a tweetup from 9:30-10:30 pm…so what if it’s a school-night…

The following peeps will be there:

LV Hanson, all the peeps from Generate, Mike Foster, Plain Joe peeps and more (plus me)

Tonight I watched  a video with   Robert Scoble on 43 Folders as he interviewed  Jeremiah Owyang and Ray Wang (who Scoble calls “two of the best analysts in the tech industry”)

At 11:22 min/seconds into the interview:

JO:”Blogs now feel slow, or slower”

RS:”I’m not using RSS readers anymore”

JO:”I put that away as well. Most of my traffic is coming from Twitter. So that’s the 2nd piece-real time data is here.”

So…here’s a question for you…

You’ve probably noticed after coming home from Christmas that your number of subscribers on your blog has dropped significantly.

I was doing some research on the whole Friendfeed / Feedburner fiasco and found the best conclusion for the new year at ReadWriteWeb:

…Google Dominates, RSS Readers Less Relevant…

These statistics are by no means the definitive RSS Reader market numbers. They do clearly show two things though:

1) Google now dominates what’s left of the RSS Reader market. Bloglines is hanging in there, but it seems like it’s given up the fight judging by lack of activity in its blog and traffic dips.

2) RSS reading is a very fragmented experience circa 2009. People can monitor news and information via Twitter, Facebook, start pages like Netvibes, their Firefox bookmarks, their OS, aggregators like Techmeme, and so on.

You can read the whole article here.

For me, I knew who reads my blog.  They comment or tell me on Twitter.  And when I redesigned the site these thoughts were on my mind:

-not about the numbers

-It’s about  relationships

-I’m not blogging for money

-this is a place to share ideas, inspiration, and thought-processes.

What about you? Will the change in RSS numbers change the way you blog in 2010?

I was watching Jud Wilhite preach this morning online at Central Christian/Las Vegas and was reminded of this great sermon by SM Lockridge.

That’s My King (REMIX) from Igniter Media on Vimeo.

The late S.M. Lockridge’s words about Jesus are still inspiring and powerful. This updated version offers a new look for a timeless message.

Last night I had a dream that I was visited by the online ghosts of Christmas past, present and yet to come…

Unfortunately, social media and blogging was so new that the Marley brothers were asking me questions about whether there was an app they could use to update their statuses while in the afterlife…

The Ghost of Online Past…

The ghost  of the past took me to Christmas last year at my in-law’s house.

ME:”Don’t you have anything older than this?”

GCP:”I’m here to take you back to when you started building your online prescence”

I was shown how I sat for hours on my laptop while the rest of the family played cards, watched movies, and spent time together.

The Ghost of the Online Present…

The Ghost of the Online Present took me on a blog tour…We ended up on a post on Michael Hyatt’s blog about the perfect moment…but Michael’s blog was getting an overhaul and we couldn’t read any of the posts.

The Ghost of Online Yet-To-Come

This ghost was still in beta and had a lot of bugs.  He had no idea what to show me.  We ended up over at John Saddington’s blog and read “Personal Web and Technology Goals for 2010″

NOTE: I’m a changed man.  I’m leaving the laptop and the Blackberry at home tonight while we spend two nights at the in-laws.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Here are 7 great review questions as you look back at 2009:

1. What are the 2-3 themes that personally defined 2009 for me?

2. What people, books, accomplishments, or special moments created highlights in 2009?

3. Give yourself a grade from 1-10 in the following areas of focus for 2009: vocationally, spiritually, family, relationally, emotionally, financially, physically, recreationally.

4. What am i working on that is BIG?

5. As I move into 2010, is a majority of my energy being spent on things that drain me or things that energize me?

6. How am I preparing for 10 years from now? 20 years from now?

7. What 2-3 things have I been putting off that I need to execute on before the end of the year?

[ht to Brad]

Sometimes…the best creative collaboration occurs without all the planning and programming…just letting it happen…no rules or guidelines…

Found this at Carlos’ blog

What would the crowd sing about you this Christmas?