Further advancing my argument that the next generation of Internet users have already broken the sound barrier passing us into the stratosphere comes an instructional blog post on WordPress blogging from precocious (there, spell that, kid) Malaysian blogger Gloson Teh, pictured here.
Gloson began blogging at eight years old, since he was already designing web sites (sigh).
His first blog was called ‘How to Multiply Your Memory’, but in a delightful illustration of irony at work, he only did one meandering post and then promptly forgot about it. Oh, the hubris of being eight.
Now a sage 12, Gloson has just published a series of posts under the banner of “Social Media, Blogging, and Tech Tips from a Kid”. I kid you not.
Here’s a smattering of examples:
- 22 Reasons for You to Blog
- 17 Important Things to Do After Starting Your WordPress Blog
- A Beginner’s Guide to Getting the Most Out of Twitter
Oh, and tucked into the list is a sleeper of a punch: Meeting the Prime Minister and First Lady of Malaysia. You can see a video of him reciting the poem he wrote for them here:
Cripes, I’m getting eclipsed by a pre-teen with royal connections.
My favorite Gloson post, so far, is “My Former Blog Host Accidentally Deleted My Blog (and How I Fixed It). Beyond the absolutely brilliant strategy for recovering lost blog posts should your site go down without a recent backup on file, this post is a titillating blend of righteous consumer outrage and how he sent his minion father in to the hosting office to determine why his father’s payment for the account was not registered, causing an ‘accidental deletion’ of his blog.
Gloson is going to be heck on wheels when he gets his own credit cards and car! All I could think of by that point was, “who goes to actually visit their hosting provider in person???” Host Commando has got to be ruing the day they ever set up the account, since it’s attached to a bonafide media celebrity. Oops.
Just hop on over to Gloson’s “Media” page and you’ll see what Malaysia already knows… this miniman has chops. Though the Kidz Magazine clips are sure to embarrass him greatly when humility begins to sink in, we can hope: one article is entitled “Great blogger, Fantastic Poet, Magnificent entertainer”.
You and me, both, kid.
Turns out I was 4 short of completing his excellent 17 step to-do list for blogs… as I return to them to play catch-up, I ponder the jet smoke trail of his passing with this quotation lingering in my head:
“True genius sees with the eyes of a child and thinks with the brain of a genie” (Puzant Kevork Thomajan)
Indeed.
