Well the auction is over.

CBCNews.ca “Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac, as known for his attention-seeking stunts as his musical talents, has launched an online auction to sell half of his future revenue. In an eBay listing, the 33-year-old musician says he’ll share 50 per cent of his future receipts with a winning bidder until the day he dies. The deal also includes a concert a year for the next decade, located wherever the winner chooses. As of Wednesday afternoon, one anonymous eBay account holder has met MacIsaac’s starting bid of $1.5 million. The auction ends July 7.”

As far as i can tell the one bidder has disappeared and the auction has been taken down. Im not sure if its brilliant or sad.

Did anyone hear more on this, how it ended?

Don’t underestimate how important it is. Make something you love. It doesnt always work out but the point is to try. I was listening to Margaret Atwood on CBC and she was talking about if the point of poetry is to be active or passive. She said something one of her old teachers use to say was “is it alive or dead”. You may not always succeed but who cares. We try to make things that are alive. The internet allows us to do things we couldn’t before. Freedom. Thats why i love it.

Chris Brogan, an always read on my Google Reader writes a great post of blogging essentials. If your blogging or thinking about it, its a good read. There really is a method to the madness and Chris helps sort through it with A Sample of Blogging Workflow.

Chris Penn wrote today that Twitter has limited the number of people that he can follow. We all know they are having their problems over there, maybe this is a way of trying to put limitations on their service while they play catch up.
But lets talk honestly for a second. Does it matter? How many people can you really follow, I mean really follow. Chris has over 2000 people that he’s following. I can barely keep up with returning my emails, never mind write my 2 blogs, voice mails etc. Can anyone really follow 2000 people on twitter, or a 1000 or even a 100. For myself and from my conversations with many of you thats not really what we are doing with Twitter. Most of us scan it when we can. We use Tweetscan to check out what people are saying about us. So the # of people you are following is more about the # than the value of all those conversations.

Maybe Ive missed the point of following. What do you think? How many people do you really follow?

Ps you can follow me on Twitter here, if you can handle the noise:)

Note: Chris Penn commented
“I can definitely say I don’t know what all 2,000 are doing, but I can also definitely say that with a river of stuff that broad, there’s always an interesting conversation to jump in to!”

Im doing most things on my mobile because I travel so much and am rarely at a desk, so i think its harder to surf the river, but Im going to try and think of Twitter following that way for a bit to see if it changes my interactions.

A picture is worth a 1000 words. Remember where the music at Starbuck use to sit. Apparently teddy bears in bee suits bring in more revenue. Not a cd to be found in the place.
I need to go into the bear business:)