Orbit Change Conversations

He’s a 15 year old in Chennai (India) who’s creating waves. He had done a fabulous analysis of Scoble’s blog that you must check out here. BTW, don’t forget his edgy About Me section. Here is what some of the folks have to say about him…

Christian Long, a famous education blogger, in think:lab blog:

Yuvi had the gumption to take a new set of tech skills he was working on and does a real-time case study of someone very well known. Just ’cause he was curious. Managed to catch said well known person’s attention and a nice blog post/link in response and a lot of traffic in a virtual snap. And while it may be a pretty niche analysis (how many unique page links did said well known person use on their blog, how many words/post did said well known person tend to use, etc.), it does suggest an instinct for capturing attention. For developing a technique. A story. A presence. A brand. And all without the diploma/degree or professional title or other trappings of what we are helping kids/students achieve in school. Very interesting.

So, while no decent geek is going to count me among their HTML-brotherhood, let alone their Python-parties, I do find his blog to be fascinating…and a perfectly apt example of what dig:nat’s are doing ‘outside of school’ whether they fill out your worksheet or not.

Kevin Hillstrom in his Mine That Data blog:

First, who are you going to hire, the twenty-six year old who mails you a resume, touting the three years of experience at a great company, or Yuvi, the person who had the initiative at age fifteen to unabashedly share his analytical insights about a uber-blogger with the entire world, illustrating a clarity of presentation that most forty year olds cannot aspire to?

In time, I can see a world where folks like Yuvi access corporate datasets with anonymous information, creating brilliant insights and analyses that cannot possibly be matched by in-house talent. And what an interesting opportunity this presents for both businesses and individuals.