Interesting take on things. One thing that gets me though is when people try way too hard to convince you to use something. That can sometimes backfire. You start wondering if there's a cult involved or if they're on commission.

Examples would be git,twitter,rails,etc - basically all the 'hip cool so hot right now!!!' stuff.

I think the other thing is that 'early adopter' can be confused with 'shameless fashion follower'. The difference there is easy to see in hindsight, but a little trickier when you don't yet know how big something is going to be.

There's no doubt though that this industry has tons of 'fashions', with people being in the 'in crowd', using the 'in tools', then a couple of years later ditching all that and moving onto the next hyped up thing and starting again from scratch.

Perhaps I'm just getting old ;)

Getting olds ok, after all with all that living you may have learned something axod ;)

I'm looking really hard at applications for p2 (Matt Mullenwegs twitterlike app for wordpess) and google wave (can't get the developers version yet...)

PS: Self-serving experiment. I wonder if this can make it to the front page of reddit without using a subreddit... if you'd like to help with this bit of shameless self-promotion, please vote it up at http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/8sopv/a_tale_of_... :-) (If you don't, please feel absolutely free to completely ignore this comment)

You're using the reddit.com subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/ , which can be subscribed, unsubscribed, and moderated, just like any other subreddit.

The experiment was worth the try, but folks here dislike links to other crowd sourcing sites in comments.

Yes, I know... :-)