Welcome to the Web Immigrant Blog!

Here, I post for two purposes:
1) to learn
2) to help others who, like me. are eager to become conversant in all things to do with the live web, or web 2.0.

I became aware of my web immigrant status when I attended CES 2006 and was able to spend some time with Paul Allen (he calls himself Paul Allen the lesser, because he isn't THE Paul Allen of Microsoft fame) and his COO, Phil Burns . These two guys really get it, and they have been a terrific influence on my learning. Paul told me of a conference session he participated in wherein the idea came up of older web users being web immigrants, not native to the web like people who have never know a webless world.

That idea sparked something inside me, and I decided I would explore web 2.0 and work to become not only conversant in it, but truly native.

What I have encountered since is that no matter how much I learn, I continue to feel like a web immigrant, because each time I experience the new, live web, I find it to be a new place. I haven't moved. It has. And it will.

So, welcome to the blog and podcast that document my experience as a web immigrant. I am sure we will learn much together, and who knows... maybe someday we can sort of learn to lose our accents enough to be thought to be web natives! Meanwhile, the journey is a fun one filled with learning and adventure.

Who could ask for more?