November 20, 2009

Had a seizure in the office this Mon­day, epilepsy style. Can’t remem­ber any of it since I blacked out for 10 min­utes but when I woke up there was two nurses stand­ing over me. Some say I’m over­worked but I don’t feel very stressed. I think it’s just some­thing that hap­pened but I’m going to the hos­pi­tal here in Ams­ter­dam to check it out just in case. I mean, if I’ve got epilepsy I’d like to know about it.

Been blog­ging way too lit­tle lately, so here’s a tiny sta­tus update. First of all, I’ve started a new com­pany, a web shop, with my father and a friend. It’s called IZE.se (fritid­skläder på nätet) and I’m han­dling the tech­ni­cal aspects such as devel­op­ment, design, photo editing/uploading and hosting.

The shop is run­ning on a Magento Com­mu­nity Edi­tion plat­form and the plan for me is to sell some good qual­ity out­doors cloth­ing for great prices in Swe­den while push­ing them with social net­work­ing and word-of-mouth. Ecom­merce is more dif­fi­cult than one may think but I believe we’re three peo­ple who are good in three dif­fer­ent areas and we’re sell­ing some pretty good prod­ucts. It’s an inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence for me and hope­fully it’s a mat­ter of time before things start moving.

Besides that, I’ve also started doing some work as what I call “inter­ac­tive agent”. This means I’m tak­ing care of some­one else’s inter­ac­tive needs, such as web sites, email addresses, social net­work­ing, home net­work­ing, you name it. The idea is to take care of the tech­ni­cal work that nor­mal peo­ple don’t enjoy so that they can focus on what they truly love. In the case of my first and favorite client, La Cle de Soul, it’s singing. Work­ing with artists and other cre­ative peo­ple is some­thing I’ve wanted to do for a long time and it’s amaz­ing to finally be able to do it.

That’s about it. I’m look­ing for­ward to start blog­ging more—I’ve got a whole bunch of post-it’s with stuff that needs to go online. Until they get trans­ferred to the screen, here’s a list of a few peo­ple who pro­duce some pretty nice Tweets now and then. Dofol­low these and you shall be enlightened:

https://twitter.com/aral
https://twitter.com/andyrutledge
https://twitter.com/zeldman
https://twitter.com/nicksergeant
https://twitter.com/scarymarys

Have fun!

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