jeff taylor

following my dreams

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@DJBless you are going to love everything but the email...

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@AmyGoGo-this is me in my other attire/in my day job world :)

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@AmyGoGo did i see you last year in all the dust storms?

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between my now eminent blog and my tweet deck and my tweet later and my 3 twitter personas i am just drowning in follower overhype. :)

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thanks for all your advice about how to tell the monster story on twitter. most of you that chimed in said i need a blog to connect mytweets

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i was also in the paper today for a completely different reason...a story on my cool little house in holliston http://tinyurl.com/dj6h77

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i like one part of this story very much....its TRUE!

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sorry for the delay...if you call it that! This whole story started last sunday with a reporter from BGlobe called http://tinyurl.com/dbjexc

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7 direct messages...looking for 3 more. welcome to all the new followers!! jeff

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whats up tom...how did the entrep day go with your son? been tweeting on twitter.com/jefrtale for weeks. finally decided i better x-over :)

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and...by the way...watch for my quotes in a story in monday's Boston Globe about a very early story that got me thinking about all this :)

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would you like to hear...the rest of the story? Will tell all over the next few weeks once i have 10 people that message me and egg me on..

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draw it, you can't build it" so i did(draw it) and it was(the very first jobs scribble) destined for the currently unknown world wide web.

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...at the coffee shop. after about 4 hours i had enough drawings to see that there was a real idea here. i have an expression "if you cant

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monster which was later drawn by a great artist/designer named Allan Downing and named Trumpasaurus...Trump for short! meanwhile im still

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...able to read it when i woke up in the am. so i got up and went to a coffee shop and wrote the first interface and scribbled a weak first

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i would build a bbs called the monster board. I wrote the idea down in the dark on a pad next to my bed. knowing full well i wouldn't be...

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sometimes known as a bbs...where the engineers that were online(on the internet pre www) could find postings. 4:30am i awoke with a thought

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my mind is buzzing about the first night, when i had a dream. December-1993. about a big idea...a monster idea- to building a bulletin board

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The Boston Globe is in trouble and a reporter is calling, I've heard they were losing 1M p/wk...confirmed today. Its a strange way to begin.