The Dad Threshold
March 9th, 2007
Today Ning crossed the dad threshold. This is the point in time when someone like your dad might actually cross paths with the work you (or your friends) do.
Without you having to say “hey dad, look at this”.
I’ve personally never crossed this point with my own father. He has a rough idea of what I do, in general terms, maybe, kinda, sorta. But my work has never directly impacted his life in the least.
Anyhow, I’m a listener of Neal Boortz, a syndicated libertarian radio talk-show host. I also read his daily news page. Today he announced BoortzSpace, his online community type of thing. Hosted at boortz.ning.com. This is the sort of thing my own father probably noticed and might actually participate in.
I offer congratulations to Brian “Ning” McCallister and the other guys over there at Ning for hitting the beginnings of a possible mass adoption. They’ve taken this Web 2.0 thing and seem to have created something broadly useful with it.
March 9th, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Bob — thanks very much for the kind words! — love the graphic :-).
Also great to see another Brian McCallister fan out there — he’s doing amazing work for us!
March 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
heh, well, neal still doesn’t understand why i add p-links to his nuze, and definitely doesn’t get the whole rss thing. i work in a pretty restrictive cms environment, have no access to the design or back end. ning has given us a nice way to bring together fans to discuss the topics of the day. it’s easy enough for our average listeners to jump in and start using and the nerdier ones can customize a bit as they like. for me it’s another avenue for promotion. for listeners it’s community and for some, their first experience with blogging. and i have to say, i’m quite impressed that with the explosive growth ning has seen over the last couple of weeks, the only glitches i’ve noticed were with stats. i second the well done.