@DJ_AM
I don’t know much about DJ AM (Adam Goldstein). I never saw him perform. I never (knowingly) heard one of his mixes. I remember he was in a plane crash and survived.
But I do know that he tweeted a rather haunting lyric from a Grandmaster Flash song on Tuesday, two days after he threw out the first pitch before a Mets game at Citi Field.
And it appears from the news that he died yesterday after doing some crack.
Strange seeing tweets from a dead guy. He was my age, too. 36.
I heard it said this week that Twitter is not a social network, it’s blogging for the masses. It gets mistaken for a social network, but it really just lets everybody blog and comment so quickly and easily that our lives and thoughts become revealed to people, even the ones we don’t know.
I also heard it said that Twitter founder Evan Williams predicted a new communications protocol and then made it come true.
That’s an impressive feat. And it’s made reading tweets from a dead guy possible and collectively mourning his loss a social event.
So I’ll join the millions on Twitter in saying RIP @DJ_AM.
Content sharing is king.
marty@fanchatter
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