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I read Tyler’s post the other day and thought nothing of it. Then I noticed that Sessa and de Waal had blogged about it as well as others.

I have a bit of a different approach to this concept than many of the bloggers have already taken. I say tough shit. I say what makes you think I want YOUR idea? I say, what makes you think that I didn’t think of it first and that’s why I got it out quicker? I say, I must be better, stronger, faster, smarter than you if you had the idea and lost out. That’s what I say.

Mike commented on Tyler’s post asking him to name names and brand the ones that stole. Let me tell you that does no good. Mike is right though, the ones that “stole” ideas will meet their fate. The world is made round to go round and comes round fast.

But I must reiterate, what makes you think that anyone wants to steal your ideas?

My point? Your ideas are not original. Nothing that you or I can come up with will be a truly original thought. Those thoughts are all long gone. Show me an idea and I can show you another who has thought it. Give me an invention and I’ll show you one just like it. Nothing is yours.

My rebuttle question is this: Where did YOU get your idea from? Who are YOU ripping off? How self-righteous of us all to think that we thought the ideas and that others want to steal them? Who do we think we are?

What a load of rubbish. I have not claimed to have an original idea. I am a man who implements not necessarily innovates. I cannot claim that at the ‘ripe’ old age of a whopping 23 that I have come up with anything great, wondrous or truly innovative or original. If you think you are that great, prove it. Don’t complain that someone ripped off your idea.

I bet that Alexander Bell wasn’t the first to create the telephone and Henry Ford wasn’t the first to create the motorcar. They were simply the first to release their inventions and receive the accolades. This is the way of the world, this has always been the way of the world. Simple.

I have just picked up this interesting little social site that allows you to make notes and bullets on any website. So now, through Fleck you can not only consume information, but you can give it back. Simply leave a note, share it, blog it and let people know what you think of the site you are visiting.

Currently Fleck is not supported on IE, the makers suggest Firefox and are in the process of developing an IE version soon.

I am still in the process of familiarising myself with this tool but I think it sounds interesting. A little bar at the bottom of your screen pops up with various options available including bullet, note, share, blog and others. Below is a screen shot.

The other joy of this little tool is that there is no need to sign-up or register. You can do so if you wish, but it isn’t necessary. I have a registration addiction so I tend to register with every site that I stumble across.

coComment is fantastic. If you read TechAttack3 you will get the gist of the story surrounding coComment. Now I’ve had a bit of time making use of this initiative and I am extremely impressed.

coComment takes a bit of getting used to and understanding but let’s be honest, if I can do it, anyone can. It’s a hop, skip and a jump away from registering to getting in the full swing of the process involved in tracking your comments.

I not only spend alot of time reading blogs that I like and commenting on them, but following up on those comments and conversations. It is extremely time consuming to try and cover them all in one fell swoop and remember where I’ve been, who said what and when. So now I simply have coComment do it for me. The program can be downloaded (If you are using Flock or FireFox) and simply attaches itself to your blogger/wordpress comment box and asks if you would like to track the conversation. This is where it gets a little bit slow, once you tick the box and say you do want to track the conversation, you need to enter the blog title, url, post and post link then write your post and sign in as per usual. The comment is then sent straight to your coComment inbox where you can thereafter view and track comments on the conversation.

It’s simple, it’s easy and that’s the way I like these sort of applications to be. Easy enough for me to use and explain in 2 days and one post. Done and dusted.