Surreal Web 2.0 Moment

Although I have lived here since 1988 (admittedly with a 4 year break back in London), I still have great affinity for the BBC. My iPod is full of Podcasts from BBC Radio. My  favorite is the weekly H2O Show from Radio Solent, a local BBC station on the South Coast. Its presenters include Robin Knox-Johnston. This week's Podcast was especially good as it included interviews with Ben Ainslie and a chilling story about cruisers who were boarded ar robbed in St Lucia.

A few weeks ago, the show launched a Facebook page which I promptly joined. I left a rather gushing post on their wall. So, one week later, I am walking briskly down 7th Avenue with the throng heading for Penn Station. My iPhone is strapped on and I am listening to the latest H2O Show podacst when they start talking about their Facebook page. Lo and behold they start talking about posts on their facebook page. RKJ's co-presenter says:

"And we got a nice post from Adam In New Jersey saying bla, bla..."

I almost fell into the street. It was so surreal. Here I am over 4000 miles from the source of the show listening to a recorded show that doesn't broadcast much North of Hampshire, listening on a device that didn't exist 2 years ago talking about something I said on a web site that most people had not heard of 2 years ago.

In the words of Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commader "What a fascinating modern world we live in"