If you visit the site of Yahoo Geocities It says “Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no longer available.”
Yahoo has decided to discontinue this service which has been around for 15 years. Times have changed, it can’t survive anymore and not improving the service or reinventing it may have been the reasons.
I am amazed by this video that has been popping up everywhere around the internet. It shows how much hidden potential, some seemingly normal looking people can have.
What amazes me more is the phenomenon of how rapidly her story spread. In just a few days, Susan’s story has traveled through the social web like fire. I found her mentioned in unrelated blogs, like blogs focusing on technology, medical, public speaking…etc
I think the reason for this social web volcanic eruption (to which I’m contributing by posting this) is the fact that show business has always given us a certain image that a celebrity singer should have. (s)he should be dressed in a certain way, be of a certain age and behave in a certain manner. Susan Boyle then, through a show that gives normal people the chance to show their talent, comes along and shatters that image. She reminds us that, when you strip away the superficiality, a singer is all about the voice (s)he has.
Even though Paul Potts, the mobile phones salesman, had the same hidden unexpected talent that baffled all, we didn’t see this kind of spread. The reason could be that Susan’s personality made her story stronger, or may be the social web was less mature at that time.