This is Part 2 of my series of The New Language.  Part 1, called The Consumer is Dead, can be found here (http://bit.ly/amimIO) . Part 3 is coming soon.

I think I’m going to change my profile on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Posterous. Currently it states I am “exploring the time and space between things”, but I think there’s a much shorter and more descriptive way of saying the same thing, “I’m futuring”.

I saw a blog post recently from @Faris, where he said “I spend a lot of time thinking about the future”. And I realized he could have just said “I future a lot” or I spend a lot of time futuring.”

It has a nice ring to it.

It reminds me of a book I read to my daughter when she was 4, called “Mirandy and Brother Wind”. The story centers around a big dance called a Cakewalk and a 6 year old girl named Mirandy.  Mirandy needs a partner for the dance and decides the best partner she could possibly have would be the Wind.  She then tries numerous ways to catch him and her wise grandmother tells her that nobody can catch Brother Wind, because “he be special, he be free.”

Doesn’t that sound like the future? The future is free. It roams around stirring things up, confusing people, breathing life into still things, but if you catch it—just for an instant, it’s the best partner for the dance.   And Mirandy was right.

Cheers.

Photo by Peyekcaster.

As most of you know, I love Twitter.

And one of the reasons I do is that it's a virtual New York CIty. I am
in touch with amazing people from all over the world, and I don't even
know them. It's like a subway ride we're all taking together.

Anyway, one of my recent tweets took a lovely journey half way round
the world and I thought I'd share it with you.

It starts off in London. I follow the editor in chief of The Next Web
called Zee M. Kane, with the lovely twitter name of @zee.

He shared a video that was posted on March 26, 2007 by a retired
school teacher with the YouTube channel name of burstingsquidoo. The
video was an interview of Steve Jobs where he quotes Picasso as
saying "good artists copy, great artists steal".

That reminded me of @faris' blog called TIGS--which stands for Talent
Imitates, Genius Steals.

So from my office in LA, I retweeeted Zee's tweet from London to Faris in NYC.

He picked it up and put it on his blog http://bit.ly/bFMokD (Subscribe
to it...you'll be a lot smarter if you do!)

From NYC, it was picked up by numerous international blogs in Germany
and England.

But funnily enough, it was retweeted by @timsgreenhalgh in Brighton, UK.

Now it just so happens that iCrossing has an office in the UK,in
Brighton as a matter of fact. So i reached out to Tim and asked him if
he knew @amayfield the VP of Social Media from our office there. And
of course, yes, he knew him well.

And now we're all friends on Twitter and I feel like we just had a
wonderful subway ride together.

cheers.