Comments on: Does the Silicon Valley Economy Drive a Luxury Bus?

By: A Day in the Life of the Tech Middle Class - Profy.Com

A Day in the Life of the Tech Middle Class - Profy.Com — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:14:31 +0000

[...] Posted by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira on June 21st, 2008 My initial reaction to Steven Hodson's post about the digital divide between the haves and the have nots has stuck with me, but apparently, 10 days is too long for it to have remained in the attention-deficit world of the Twitterati. The gap between the designers and the intended users is growing ever wider, and you have to wonder if the eventual fate of Web 2.0 won't be a result of the chasm in the middle. [...]

By: One Blogger Puts Things in Perspective : The Drama 2.0 Show

One Blogger Puts Things in Perspective : The Drama 2.0 Show — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:24:49 +0000

[...] Through Profy, I came across an interesting post that adds a dash of perspective to the blogosphere and the world of “first adopters” at large. [...]

By: The New Media Diva » Dumb question: Who is Louis Gray and other blogosphere questions

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:02:58 +0000

[...] Another post that Phil linked to also got me thinking: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira’s article Does the Silicon Valley Economy Drive a Luxury Bus?. She preached the truth there and said something that I’ve always thought. There seems to be a divide between SV folks and those of us who don’t have the cash or the connections in the blogosphere. [...]

By: Rashunda Tramble

Rashunda Tramble — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:48:38 +0000

Let the church say, “Amen.”

By: notes, thoughts, ideas and responses » Exactly What Ails Social Media And Next Gen Startups

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:03:45 +0000

[...] Steven Hodson, J. Phil and Cyndy Aleo-Carreira collectively pinned the reality of what it means to blog. At this level, there is relatively little or no money to make and for most bloggers this is nothing more than a hobby. Does that mean we should stop? Absolutely not! By creating conversations, we’re actually starting to unravel what people do need from services on the web and that’s why something very different should slowly begin to happen. What should happen is VC’s should slow their roll on making millions rain - this is not a rap video Silicon Valley - you’re going to run out of money before we discover the services people can truly benefit from! [...]

By: [scribkin] Maybe I Will Stick With My Day Job

[scribkin] Maybe I Will Stick With My Day Job — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:31:47 +0000

[...] Wrong, wrong, wrong. My daydream started to evaporate when I saw a discussion on the income potential of professional bloggers, spurred by this WinExtra article from Steven Hodson, which talks about the cost of the latest gadgets. That led to this Profy article written by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, about the strange economy of silicon valley. [...]

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:52:16 +0000

Cyndy, actually we in Russia tend to focus less on moving the homeless people because this definitely does not help - moving them from the capital will simply bring them to other towns around the country. Instead we here try to involve the homeless people more in the workforce - they are offered jobs (like cleaning the streets) that are accompanied with some accommodation. Moreover, here if you want to actually work as a street cleaner, you will always be able to have a small apartment all to yourself in the area where you work. So the homeless people here are not the people who do not have a chance to work, they are the people who have no wish to work at all. But in Russia with our cold winters it is really rather difficult to be a homeless, so maybe this is why we have less of them.

By: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:39:02 +0000

Oops! @latoga Sorry! Didn’t mean to forget you in my responses! I definitely don’t think that everyone ignores the homeless; in fact, most of the people I saw there sleeping on the street had the same or similar blankets, so I assume there is some sort of initiative in play there. It’s the contrast of wealth and poverty that I’m talking about, and the strange view that some have in chasing the latest and greatest shiny object when they are daily confronted with that poverty. I struggle with that issue daily when deciding what we need versus what we want, and I don’t have that constant reminder in my face of how very lucky I am.

By: Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:35:43 +0000

@J. Phil The thing that was so startling wasn’t just the homeless issue for me, since I think SFO’s problem still isn’t as bad as Toronto’s from what I saw, but the juxtaposition of mad money next to it was incomprehensible. And the gadgets… I called my husband at one point and said “You know how we couldn’t believe the iPhone sales figures? I do now. 99% of them are in this city.”

@Steven Thank you, sir. You can see why it was just too large to leave as a comment on your post.

@Alex I’ll take the thanks. Every time I try to use the “Well, it’s California” I’m told I have an East Coast prejudice, which I probably do, but it was like I was on a whole different planet.

@M Jacbobs I think you are right in the respect that some of the money out there is Monopoly money, but it’s money nonetheless.

@Svetlana I’m always interested in how a city “takes care” of a homeless issue. Many of the proposals here all have to do with moving people, but not dealing with the underlying issues.

@A Strange Web Thank you! I have such a different perspective, living in a city that was a booming manufacturing town at one point and is now struggling to reinvent itself. It may be one of the reasons why my viewpoint is so often diametrically opposed to the rest of the early adopter crowd; I live in a much different culture where many of this “game changer” apps would serve no practical purpose.

@ Leslie Thank you.

By: Leslie Poston

Leslie Poston — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:26:40 +0000

Nice post, Cyndy.