Life In Perpetual Beta

Disclaimer: Melissa herself edited this video, if the phenominal videographer Adrienne Brawley edited it, you would nominate it for every award possible.

As usual,  I reached out to my friends on twitter for an idea of who I should interview while in San Francisco.  Chris Saad of Faraday Media,  The Data Portability Project, & JS-Kit was on more than one persons "must interview" list.  I did a quick scan of Chris’s personal blog and knew that once again, my twitter pals were right, I had to interview this guy.  I swear sometimes, twitter is like the magic 8 ball of the internet.

I’m blown away that Chris Saad has ALWAYS been interested in technology and how the internet will change things for us.  He was on the news at 10 yrs old talking about it!  I don’t know anybody that has been that passionate about one thing for that long. He’s the anomaly in my interviewee list in that regard. Are you doing exactly what you wanted to do when you were 10?

Another thing.  This is a whole new area of expertise I never guessed existed. He pays attention to what people pay attention to online? He’s like a technological sociologist/anthropologist/sleuth/advocate/seer.   That’s a pretty cool gig if you can create it and have the intellect to sustain the amount of lateral thinking required. (Um, I’m no rocket scientist but what he does seems exciting but mentally taxing to me.)

So many more questions arose for me from this interview, so many things I want to know about and I understand all fit together, the hard part is dissecting what it is I want to know personally, and what I want to investigate further for this film. Perhaps I can take Chris’s advice and build a better filter, i.e. it may be time for me to build that storyboard.

Seems to be a theme with me these days. Everything belongs but nothing fits.

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