Be Skype Journal

There is so much going on with Skype that the independent Skype Journal needs help. Please Skype me if you'd like to change the world, cover Skype, its competition, products and technology, industry events, and business affairs. 2009 will be a dramatic year for the hundreds of millions of people using Skype around the world. Tell that story.

The network of networks is making distance disappear, and everything is becoming the Internet. We are building pixels into the ambience of our homes, into the plastic we carry, into the theaters of our work, onto our cityscapes and into everything with wheels.

Those pixels are coming with sound and sensors. So the web's metaphor moves from paints and surfaces to glass and open windows. We talk through these open windows into other people's lives. And we share our own.

Somewhere in between here and there is the plumbing that connects all of us together. Energy pulses through glass and sand and copper and air, throbbing with life, with attention, with the minds of humanity, with our beating hearts, with our music.

As we make it, we are changing ourselves. We barely understand what that means. We are becoming more connected, seizing control of our institutions, revising what it means to know and remember, to belong.

And the Internet is only five thousand days old.

In 2001 our global blogosphere shared the horror of the 9/11 attacks.

In 2008 our global mediasphere tweeted, blogged, Blackberried, tagged, digged, YouTubed, streamed, Skyped, IM'd the horror of the #Mumbai attacks.

What could it be like at day 10k? 20k?

Rolling Stone magazine told the story of a music and cultural revolution. I hope Skype Journal does it's part to report and interpret this revolution, shine a light where it does good, and invite people to the party.

Which brings me back to you.

Consider this an invitation. Write the change that happens. Write the change you want. Skype Journal needs your voice. Skype me and we'll set it up.

Phil Wolff
Publisher, Managing Editor.