I’m bored. Really, really bored. Over the last few months I have watched people leave college and start working; sometimes for themselves, and often for others. I’ve also watched people become redundant and, if you’re trying to look at the positive side of things, they now have had the slate wiped clean – an infinite number of opportunities now available to them.

While all that has been happening, I, on the other hand, have been stuck in the classroom, exam hall and my room – doing homework. I don’t know what I really want to do in life – but I know what I don’t want to do. Put up with this seemingly endless bombardment of useless information for another minute.

But I do.

Why? Because at the end of the day I know that the harder I work, the more effort that I put into my education, I am widening my horizons, and when one doesn’t know what they want to do in life. That’s very reassuring to know.

Right now, I’m at the point when I’m looking into Universities and I’m not sure what to do. Every single person I talk to tells me that I must go to University, and I know why they say that – it’s just what’s ‘done’.

However, there is this voice in the back of my head asking me if I can really bare an extra four years of education – useful or not. I see the rational direction in which to go in. But yet, against everything my head is telling me – my instinct, just wants me to get out there and start doing something with my life.

So in the mean time, before I really have to start choosing Universities and what else I want to do; I’d better get back to digging my hole.

Audi’s CEO on the Economic Downturn –

“We heard about it, so we had a board meeting and discussed it thoroughly and have decided not to participate.”

Brilliant.

[Source: The Telegraph Newspaper]

Today Revision3 announced that they were cutting their losses and canceling some of their programming and also (more importantly) laying off some of their staff. For me this really shows the global economic crisis has reached the tech industry. I’m aware the Mahalo had to a couple of weeks ago, but for me – it’s only just hit home.

We’ve had a number of great successes here at Revision3, including Diggnation, Tekzilla and The Totally Rad Show. But not everything pans out. Just as in the past, when we ended shows that just weren’t building audiences or driving revenue, we had to make changes. As you may have heard, today we had to make some tough staffing decisions as we ended the run of a few of our shows.

I didn’t expect the economic downturn to hit the tech industry until 2009 at the earliest, it really shows how unpredictable these things are.

Sadly, this is just the start, I’m not looking forward to seeing the inevitable changes throughout the internet as more and more companies are affected by the changes in the economy. It’s quite shocking to see people who I thought held such a solid role within Revision3 loosing their jobs.

But how does this effect us? What are we going to be seeing from tech companies when they begin to start laying people off? Well, apart from a very vibrant discussions of Twitter I guess that there is going to be less changes over a longer period time. All those brand new releases that you were expecting probably won’t come as soon as you’d like – but when do they ever? On the Rev3 side of things, a few shows got cancelled, including one of my favorites; PixelPerfect.

This show I think might have a bit of hope, it was originally produced by the Pixel Corps for Revision3 – I could quite easily see Alex and his team picking it up again. It’s so sad to see so many people from Revision3 leaving the company, I wish them the best of luck in finding a new job.