By way of introduction, I’m pleased to be one of the newest members of the Aplus.net team. Like millions of others, my life and my livelihood depends on staying connected – wired or wireless – to the world around me: for news, weather, banking, shopping, entertainment, education, you name it. It’s how I express myself and how I stay in touch. I use Twitter. I sometimes sell on eBay, I have Facebook and LinkedIn pages, and I regularly upload photos to Flickr and video to YouTube. I have two blogs, and I write for two others – no, make that three others now.

Yes, I do remember a time before the World Wide Web – a time before MMORPG, SSL, RSS, CMS, FTP and even IM. Before ‘google’ was a verb. Before podcasting and wikis and streaming video so good that you wonder why TV and high speed Internet didn’t merge sooner. (more…)