Changes and Focus for the New Year

First off I would like to thank everyone who has made this an incredible year. I’m very excited about 2008 and what it will bring.

Over a year ago when I was debating how to launch this site I had a lot of questions. I knew that the only way to get those questions answered was to launch the site and see what worked and what didn’t.

Based on all of my learnings there are going to be some changes happening over the coming year. The first one is that TechBoise will initially pull back to a single blog with a single blogger; me.

I deeply want to thank everyone that has committed time, resources and content for the site. Especially Norris, he has held in there longer than any sane man would have

I have plans to expand the functionality from there but right now I want to focus.

It’s all about the people

For me the great thing about Boise and the tech community here is the people. We may be a small second tier tech community but I’ve been to a lot of the bigger Silicon-wherever and a lot of the people there are pretentious, arrogant would never last here in Boise.

Boise is different. In Boise the last floor to get rented out on a new building is the top floor. In Boise people would rather be small and do it their way than be big (that’s not always a good thing BTW). In Boise making a national top 10 list is cool but there’s a part in all of us that secretly wishes people would quit adding us to their lists.

I’m tired of talking about what we could/should be doing. I’m tired of justifying our tech status to ourselves. I believe in what we have, what we’ll do and most importantly WHO we have. When I first started this site I wanted to talk about the people and companies that were doing something. I haven’t done enough of that.

I love tech and I love Boise so that will always be the underlying theme here. I’ll warn you all I have a personal preference towards software and the web. I don’t know much about manufacturing and personally don’t see it as a smart investment (but that’s my opinion).

So I hope you’ll keep coming back and check out the site, I think I have some cool stuff planned although who knows when I’ll get around to launching all of that.

Thanks again to everyone who’s helped out and especially to all of you who have cared.

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