Ivan Pope's Page

Still all quiet on the hermit front - just as I like it. Welcome Shaun - you must be the first James Bond hermit I've come across.
Keep it quiet out there, don't go on about it. If you meet a hermit, invite them over to stay.

Not many people have passed through the landscape and I haven't invited anyone to join Social Hermits - so we're doing ok.
We do have a new hermit - welcome Jeremy. I'm sure we'll see eachother in the distance as we wander around hermit wise.

Here's a hermit joke to while away the week:

What's the opposite of a hermit?
A hismit.
Boom, boom.

With raised hands reverently meek

He heard the holy hermit speak,

And humbly thus addressed the sire

Whose glory shone like kindled fire:

'How blest am I, what thanks I owe

That our great Master deigns to show

His favour, that his heart can be

Content with Lakshman, Sitá, me.

Show me, I pray, some spot of ground

Where thick trees wave aud springs abound,

That I may raise my hermit cell

And there in tranquil pleasure dwell.'

Jon Udell on social networks:

"As Avi notes in his posting, I think Gary McGraw is right when he says:
“People keep asking me to join the LinkedIn network, but I’m already
part of a network, it’s called the Internet.” It’s also obviously true
that the walled gardens are petri dishes growing cultures that will
merge with or (some believe) recreate the open Web. So although I don’t
spend a lot of t… Continue

Social Hermits is a place for quite reflection. When the whirl of social networking just overwhelms, when you don't want to be invited to any more gatherings, when the word viral takes on the air of a deadly disease - Social Hermits will be here for you. We won't talk to you or show you the latest anything. You come here to sit quietly in your cave, only emerging to add some baroque romance to the landscape.
So the first rule of Social Hermits is that you don't invite anyone to join. You don… Continue