I still find life’s coincidences with things you’ve just started thinking about and how they pop up in front of you soon after surprising. A phenomenon which I am faced with a lot more often I find with the online world! Case and point: I’ve just started looking into posterous, subscribing for an account just last week and today *tadaaaa* I come face to face with 2 articles defending Posterous and how great it is and how much better it works than conventional blogging.
Econsultancy’s piece on Blogging is Back and it’s called Posterous and
Mashable’s Posterous Vs Tumblr head to head
Well, considering that Mashable’s piece is included in the Econsultancy blog post might exclude it as a pure-coincidence and classify it more as a clicking-on-the-related-link-of-the-post-I’m-already-reading-placed-there-purposely sorta thing. But who’s keeping tabs anyway!
The weirdest techie coincidence I’ve had up to date is when I first signed up for Twitter and was asking our company online strategy Consultant for his expert opinion on how to retweet easier and how to include shortened links in my tweets. While I was waiting for his response I randomly came across TweetDeck and started downloading it. In the meantime I went to the kitchen to get myself a glass of water where our pre-mentioned consultant was there asking me if I’m downloading TweetDeck…for which I said yes in a weirded out ‘how the hell did you know that, is Big Brother watching me’ look on my face. When I asked him, he told me that he just sent me an email telling me to download TweetDeck as the solution for my questions. Then it was my turn to weird him out by telling him that by pure coincidence I had started downloading it seconds before sending his email. Muahaha!
…and don’t even get me started on real life coincidences like randomly meeting my grandmother’s godson, who I’d never met before in my life, in a cafe in New York (note that my grandmother comes from a tiny village in Cyprus called Vavla with a population of 40 people at best). But those are stories for a different time.
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